Altonaer Stiftung für philosophische Grundlagenforschung
ISBN 9783899599312

Dilemmata. Jahrbuch der Altonaer Stiftung für philosophische Grundlagenforschung 2009, 4. Jahrgang 2009 # 234 S., 3 Abb.

SCHLAGWORTE:
Logik
Rechtsphilosophie
Angewandte Ethik

INHALT:


Charlie Donahue, Dialectical Logic and Indiscrete Models (Seiten 1-40)


Sacha Gibbons, The Real/Trauma and Aboriginal Life-Writing (Seiten 41-67)


By employing a wide range of contemporary theory, primarily from work on Holocaust testimonies and Latin American testimonio, to examine Aboriginal life-writing, this article brings together diverse cultural and historical contexts of trauma and political agency. While acknowledging the incommensurability of these different cultural sites of trauma, I argue that there are processes involved in dealing with trauma and injustice that have cross-cultural significance.


Emma Issatt, Trojan Genes and Trojan Laws: When the Polluter Doesn't Pay (Seiten 69-80)


Aquaculture which uses genetically modified fish is nearly market-ready. As a totally new industry it holds implications for society and the environment, and therefore it should be subject to a legislative regime that is, in terms of precaution, adequate if not rigorous. This paper is a brief look at the state of regulation in the EU for one of the potential hazards of genetically modified fish. It postulates an inability to act on an inability to legislate adequately and begins an analysis of why that is so.


Valerie Kerruish, But what's it got to do with law? (Seiten 81-124)


Hegel's idea of a dialectical and speculative logic sets reason the practical--theoretical task of deriving thought's logical foundation: a dynamic and incomplete mapping of logical space. That task involves a derivation of the categories of metaphysics and a critique of the `logic of the understanding', the classical formal logic which Kant described as a complete and perfect science. This paper engages Hegel's attribution of personality to the absolute Idea in the final chapter of the Logic.


Uwe Petersen, 35 Thesen zur Grundlegung einer formalen dialektischen Logik -- nebst Kommentaren (Seiten 125-207)


Seit über hundert Jahren ist die Existenz von Antinomien in der (höheren) Logik zuverlässig nachgewiesen, ohne dass das jedoch eine nennenswerte Auswirkung auf die Entwicklung einer Theorie der Dialektik Hegelscher Observanz gehabt hätte. Philosophen scheinen nur sehen zu können, dass die Hegelsche Dialektik einer formallogischen Behandlung nicht zugänglich ist, nicht hingegen, dass sich umgekehrt angesichts der Widersprüche der (höheren) Logik die Möglichkeit ergibt, Hegels Idee der Dialektik auf die antinomische Struktur der (höheren) Logik anzuwenden.


Steffen Roth, The Markets of Society -- A Research Design on Trans-Economic Exchange Rates (Seiten 209-224)


The first ambition of this paper is to present and argue for a concept of non-economic markets based on specific values (power, truth, justice, religion, etc.). The problem with these values is that they can neither be directly compared with money nor with each other: truth may be power, but how much? Would you prefer health or truth? What is the (non-)economical return of a bachelor degree? Nonetheless, every day we compare these incommensurable values. So there must be informal exchange rates. The analysis of these trans-economic exchange rates is as important as the analysis of the exchange rates between currency systems within the economic system. Based on the Luhmannian concept of functional differentiation, we are sketching a future research program based on the analysis of value related items of micro-databases (like the European Social Survey, for example). These items will be assigned to distinctive value categories. The unit of analysis then will be the intensity of dis-/affirmation to value related items: the more extreme dis-/affirmation to values of a certain value category is expressed, the higher is the relevance of the value category. By comparing these absolute values of the value categories we will calculate their relative value. It will be most interesting to focus and to compare the specific exchange rates of certain geographical segments or levels of population of European society: do the French think that politics is more relevant than the economic system? Do Estonians prefer science or education? What is the number one value category in Luxemburg? Which Sinus milieus like art more than health?

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