englischAnalogy (Latin: proportio) is the epistemological principle par excellence for the ancient world. Plato calls it the "most beautiful bond" that holds the cosmos together. For Aristoteles, analogies between different species and genera should enable a better understanding of structural [...]
more informationenglisch“I think that the main interest of philosophy in our time should be to rethink our relationship to the world. According to the previous, two-thousand-year-old relationship of man, he saw himself confronted with a reality that he had to subjugate through mental and physical appropriation. Not [...]
more informationenglisch“I think that the main interest of philosophy in our time should be to rethink our relationship to the world. According to the previous, two-thousand-year-old relationship of man, he saw himself confronted with a reality that he had to subjugate through mental and physical appropriation. Not [...]
more informationenglischSport is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Why is this so? The leading thesis of the book is: Because sport regularly produces - mostly positively evaluated - situations of affective involvement. It is the felt-bodily experiences structurally inherent in sport to which [...]
more informationenglischSport is one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Why is this so? The leading thesis of the book is: Because sport regularly produces - mostly positively evaluated - situations of affective involvement. It is the felt-bodily experiences structurally inherent in sport to which [...]
more informationenglischThe age-old dream of life leaving itself behind remains the great challenge of philosophy. For a long time, it has allowed itself to be led down the wrong path of a search that was supposed to show man a way out of time itself. The thought that the monumental two-part book "Wiedergeburt" [...]
more informationEin Vierteljahrhundert der Suche eines Autors nach der verlorenen Zeit, unternommen in der Einsamkeit und Freiheit eigenständigen Denkens, um entgegen allen akademischen Modeströmungen zurückzufinden zu den Quellen lebendigen Philosophierens. Band II spürt die Vergangenheit, die niemals Gegenwart [...]
more informationIn diesem biografisch gesättigten Essay entfaltet der Philosoph Rainer Marten vor dem Hintergrund des neoliberalen Zeitgeists der Silicon Valley-Gegenwart die Essenz seines Denkens in kraftvollen Zügen. Im Angesicht des eigenen Lebensendes legt er an unsere Zeit den Maßstab überzeitlicher Lehren der [...]
more informationIn diesem biografisch gesättigten Essay entfaltet der Philosoph Rainer Marten vor dem Hintergrund des neoliberalen Zeitgeists der Silicon Valley-Gegenwart die Essenz seines Denkens in kraftvollen Zügen. Im Angesicht des eigenen Lebensendes legt er an unsere Zeit den Maßstab überzeitlicher Lehren der [...]
more informationenglischThis study examines the relationship between technology and nature, the artificial and the natural, with the help of the conceptual pair of that which is ‘grown’ and that which is ‘made’. The first part discusses basic questions concerning man's relationship to nature and technology. The [...]
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