Seit Jahrtausenden suchen die Menschen nach dem Glück. Doch je mehr wir über das Glück nachdenken, desto weniger scheinen wir den Weg vor lauter Wegweisern zu sehen. Den modernen Debatten können die antiken Theorien von Epikur, Aristoteles oder der Stoa neues Leben einhauchen. Durch die Wiederentdeckung ihrer Betrachtungen über Selbstwirksamkeit, Tugend und Reflexion lässt sich eine Brücke zwischen Antike und Moderne schlagen – über die wir womöglich irgendwann zum Glück hinüber schreiten können. Über die antiken Glückstheorien bietet Ines Maria Eckermann einen ebenso detaillierten wie strukturierten Überblick und verbindet diese mit den Erkenntnissen der modernen Glücksforschung. Dabei verliert sie nie die ganz realen, lebensweltlichen Auswirkungen ihres Forschungsgegenstandes aus den Augen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Politik - Grundlagen und Allgemeines, word: 14 Punkte, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Politisches approach der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit geht es um die Beeinflussung von Verbänden auf der Ebene der Europäischen Union. In den ersten Zeilen werden die hier verwendeten Begriffe „Verband/Verbände“ definiert und die Entwicklung dieser im Prozess der Europäisierung erklärt. Die Funktionen und die Tätigkeitsbereiche von Interessengruppen sollen aufgezeigt und erläutert werden.

Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf der Einflussnahme von Verbänden auf die EU-Gesetzgebung und auf die damit verbundenen Institutionen. Dabei stehen die Kommission, das Europäische Parlament und den Ministerrat im Fokus, da sie primär die Institutionen sind, die für den legislativen Prozess wichtig sind. Weiterhinwerden jeweils kurz die Zusammensetzung und die Aufgaben des jeweiligen EU-Organs dargestellt. Konkret soll die Frage, wie Verbände die Gesetz- und Willensbildung in den Institutionen der Europäischen Union beeinflussen, beantwortet werden.

Wo sich viele Akteure einmischen und beteiligen, entstehen Probleme und Konflikte, aber auch Lösungen. So auch in der Verbandsarbeit. Ressourcen machen die Beziehung zwischen Verband und ecu oder Nationalstaat zu einer speedy abhängigen Komponente. Doch welche Ressourcen haben Verbände eigentlich und wie werden sie eingesetzt? Auch das europäische Verbandsdilemma, sowie Probleme und Kritik der Verbandsarbeit werden in diesem Zusammenhang betrachten und konkretisiert. Den Abschluss der Arbeit bildet ein zusammenfassendes Fazit.

The first 5 volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham comprise over 1,300 letters written either to and from Bentham over a 50-year interval, starting in 1752 (aged 3) together with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and finishing in 1797 with correspondence referring to his makes an attempt to establish a countrywide scheme for the supply of terrible aid. The early letters take care of Bentham’s schooling at Oxford college, the place he used to be despatched on the age of 12 and graduated on the age of sixteen, and his felony education prior to being admitted to the bar on the age of 21. He quickly afterwards became his again at the perform of the legislation and, allying himself with the extra radical and sceptical figures of the continental Enlightenment, launched into a occupation of legislations reform.

Against the heritage of the debates at the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significantcontributions, Bentham labored first on generating an entire penal code, after which on his panopticon legal scheme. regardless of constructing a bunch of unique and ground-breaking rules, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he released little in the course of those years, and remained, on the shut of this era, a comparatively imprecise person. however, those volumes demonstrate how the rules have been laid for the notable upward push of Benthamite utilitarianism within the early 19th century.

Bentham’s academic principles have been the foundation for the founding of UCL. nearly all of Bentham’s papers, including round 60,000 folios, are held in UCL Library.

 Bentham’s correspondence finds that during the past due 1770s he was
working intensively at the improvement of a code
of penal legislation, but in addition increasing his acquaintance and, to a reasonable degree,
enhancing his acceptance as a felony philosopher. an important kin occasion took
place in 1779, while his brother Samuel went to Russia which will make his
fortune.

This is a suite of latest writings at the paintings of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this quantity are a mix of senior students in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. jointly they supply a detailed overview of a few of the subject matters mentioned via Rolston. Rolston himself, in a close respond to each one of his critics on the finish of the amount, finds the place a few of these criticisms sting him the most.

taking a look at the paintings of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a detailed and extreme research, this booklet bargains together with his exam of a few of the issues we do with phrases, and with the philosophical insights he believed might be received through heavily interpreting the makes use of of phrases by way of non-philosophers.

This quantity is a serious exploration of a number of posthuman chances within the twenty first century and past. because of the worldwide engagement with complex know-how, we're witness to a species-wise blurring of limitations on the fringe of the human. On the only hand, we discover ourselves in a electronic age within which human identification is being reworked via networked technological intervention, a wide a part of our awareness transferred to "smart" exterior units. nonetheless, we're assisted---or assailed---by an unparalleled proliferation of quasi-human substitutes and surrogates, forming a spectrum of humanoids with fuzzy borders. Under those stipulations, serious posthumanism asks, who will occupy and regulate our planet: Will the "superhuman" in simple terms function one other signal below which new regimes of dominance are unfold around the earth? Or will we realize or invent applied sciences of lifestyles to counter such dominance? it's concerns similar to those that are on the middle of this new quantity of explorations of the posthuman.  The essays during this quantity supply modern notion at the topic, with precise emphases on postmodern and postcolonial futures. They interact with questions of subalternity and feminism vis-à-vis posthumanism, facing problems with subjugation, dispensability and surrogacy, in addition to the probabilities of resistance, moral politics or subjective transformation from South Asian data of cultural and religious perform. This quantity is a beneficial addition to the on-going international dialogues on posthumanism, fundamental to these, from throughout a number of disciplines, who're attracted to postcolonial and planetary futures.

This publication is a "simple advisor" to theological and philosophical facets of the idea of the medieval Franciscan, John Duns Scotus. referred to as the sophisticated health professional, Scotus has a name for complex and technical reasoning. Ingham presents an insightful and artistic creation to his concept during this booklet. Philosophical and theological rules are explored with readability and tested by means of a variety of useful examples. by means of organizing the ebook round subject matters which are either well timed and pressing, Ingham invitations the reader into considerate mirrored image, encourages full of life dialogue, and demanding situations Franciscans particularly to think about deciding on styles of relationships that try for the nice and sweetness in all things.

This booklet brings jointly a gaggle of overseas students, a lot of whom have already contributed to the controversy on toleration, and who're delivering clean concepts and techniques to it. The essays of this assortment are written from quite a few views: old, analytical, normative, and felony. but, all authors percentage a priority with the polishing of our realizing of the explanations for toleration in addition to with making them suitable to the best way we are living with others in our glossy and numerous societies.

Praise for quantity 1:

"... a prime version, which supersedes all different moveable Peirces.... the entire Peirce many people ever need." —Louis Menand, the recent York evaluate of Books

Volume 2 of this useful two-volume chronological reader’s variation offers the 1st complete anthology of the bright American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce’s mature philosophy. A valuable concentration of quantity 2 is Peirce’s evolving idea of symptoms and its appplication to his pragmatism.

If there was a few modest develop, considering the fact that Karl Popper's dying in 1994, within the normal knowing of his serious rationalist thought of data and philosophy of technological know-how, there's nonetheless frequent resistance either to it and to the popularity of the significance of his contribution. Popper some time past clinically determined the logical difficulties of conventional enlightenment rationalism (as did a few irrationalists), yet rather than pretending that they're effortlessly solved or embracing irrational defeatism (as do postmodernists), he supplied a cogent and releasing rationalist substitute. This booklet promotes, defends, criticizes, and refines this substitute. David Miller is the major exponent of the purist serious rationalist doctrine and right here offers his mature perspectives, discussing the position that good judgment and argument play within the development of information, criticizing the typical knowing of argument as an software of justification, persuasion or discovery and as a substitute advocating the serious rationalist view that basically feedback concerns. Miller patiently and carefully undoes the wear and tear performed via these writers who assault serious rationalism via invoking the sterile mythology of induction and justification that it seeks to brush away. moreover his new fabric at the debate on verisimilitude is vital analyzing for all operating during this field.