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11.11.2024
Announcement of my text in Anselm Grün's new book
An easier life – who doesn‘t want that? Many thanks to Anselm Grün, Dr. Rudolf Walter and Herder Publishing House for the wonderful cooperation! What is it that makes my life easier? That is anyone’s …
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3.5.2024
Wittgenstein's alternative concept of language to Augustine's
Who would have thought that Descartes’ famous cogito-argument was already asserted well before by Augustine, the professor of rhetoric and bishop of Hippo? Who is thinking of Augustine as a …
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20.3.2024
Work in progress
Me and my esteemed colleague Dr. Bryan Hanley are working on a book project about philosophy and science at the moment. So stay tuned for further details about this enthralling interdisciplinary …
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22.6.2022
Review in Augustiana
Sophia Vallbracht: Review of J. Warren Smith: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020, in: Augustiniana, Leuven: Peeters Publishers …
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5.4.2022
Why did Hume think that we cannot have any experience of causation?
In his groundbreaking Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding IV,1 (1748) David Hume claims that „the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every …
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27.7.2021
Decorum orationis & Decorum vitae
Aristotle stipulates man as a ζῶον λόγον ἔχων , i.e. as a living being that has λόγος, and one that perceives the world through his senses. This impacts how he sees the objective world of res, be it …
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1.5.2021
If mental states are causally inert do we have any reason to believe they exist?
Human consciousness and the very existence and concept of the mind or soul seem to pose the metaphysical touchstone for philosophers and physicist alike. Epiphenomenalism claims that mental states …
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30.11.2020
How can we know anything?
Most prominently since Plato’s quest for truth (ἀλήθεια) instead of appearance (δόξα), the human race is driven and defined by its urge for knowledge. Our mental capacity is the unique feature that …
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15.4.2019
Decorum as a normative force in rhetoric
Quod decet? This question arises in every rhetorical situation in which the orator wants to enforce his agenda through a speech. Even though appropriateness is a genuinely rhetorical category, it has …
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21.12.2006
The Ethos in Rhetoric and Politics
This thesis analyses the performance of ethos in a two-pronged approach. The first part is dedicated to the theoretical reflection of ethos and its historical development since Aristotle. Outstanding …
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