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Instrumental Rationality versus Practical Reason (2237KB)

Autonom Leben - Inhalt (369KB)

Global Justice - Problems of a Cosmopolitan Account (2021KB)

Liberalism Perfectionism and Civic Virtue (2264KB)

Vereinbarungen unter freien und gleichen Bürgern (2969KB)

Transformationen der Normativität (15195KB)



Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Civic Virtue(135KB)
This paper explores the question whether perfectionism amounts to a political doctrine that is more attractive than liberalism. I try to show that an egalitarian liberalism that is open to questions of value and that holds a conception of limited neutrality can meet the perfectionist challenge.

Freedom and Equality: Beyond Egalitarianism and Anti-Egalitarianism(134KB)
In this paper I argue that an autonomy-based political theory intergrates the value of equality in a form that allows us to leave behind the dispute between egalitarianism and anti-egalitarianism.

Zivilgesellschaft – Was kann und soll es bedeuten?(93KB)
In dem Text analysiere ich, welche Probleme das Nachdenken über die Kategorie der Zivilgesellschaft so dringlich gemacht haben. Ich argumentiere, dass dies die Frage demokratischer Gesellschaften nach den ethisch und politisch relevanten Räumen ist, die sich zwischen einer jedem staatlichen Zugriff entzogenen persönlichen Moral und der Sphäre des positiven Rechts auftun.