Michael Schefczyk

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

It is well known that John Stuart Mill (JSM) repeatedly acknowledges Harriet Taylor Mill's (HTM) substantial contribution to On Liberty . After her death, however, he decides to publish the book under his name only. Are we justified in continuing this practice, initiated by JSM, of refusing unequivocal co-authorship status to HTM? Drawing on stylom...

Many German historians are surprised to see how much attention the long neglected Armenian genocide has received in the news since 2015. A plethora of articles and public events was accompanied by attempts of no less than three of four constitutional bodies—the German government, the parliament, and the president—to come to grips with the question...

Researching the evolution of the concepts represented by words, like "peace" or "freedom", named conceptual history, is an important discipline in the humanities, but still a laborious task. It normally consists of reading and interpreting a large number of carefully selected texts, without however always having a comprehensive knowledge of all the...

Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and, more recently, Ruediger Bittner argued that regret is unreasonable. My article criticises this view and describes what I consider to be the common-sense understanding of regret: In some – but not all – cases of flawed actions it is unreasonable to regret what one did. The article characterises the common-sen...

This article applies argument analysis techniques in order to identify shortcomings in Alan Greenspan’s justification for the Federal Reserve’s inactivity regarding the housing price boom between 2002 and 2005. The application of argument analysis techniques does not only help to detect fallacies in the argumentative underpinning of a policy. Such...

Der Begriff ›historische Gerechtigkeit‹ bezieht sich auf Rechte und Pflichten, die sich aus historischem Unrecht und seinen Folgen ergeben. Historische Gerechtigkeit wird geübt, wenn den entsprechenden Rechten und Pflichten Genüge geleistet wird. Beispiele solcher Leistungen sind die Rückgabe geraubten Eigentums, die Behebung von angerichteten Schä...

Der Begriff der Generationen- oder intergenerationellen Gerechtigkeit bezieht sich auf das Problem der gerechten Verteilung von Lasten und Vorteilen zwischen den Angehörigen unterschiedlicher Generationen. Dabei sind grob zwei Fälle zu unterscheiden. In dem einen Fall geht es um die Verteilung von Lasten und Vorteilen zwischen heute lebenden Person...

In Justice as Fairness, Rawls presents a case for property-owning democracy (POD) which heavily depends on a favourable comparison with welfare state capitalism (WSC). He argues that WSC, but not POD, fails to realise 'all the main political values expressed by the two principles of justice'. This article argues that Rawls's case for POD is incompl...

Richard Posner avers in his A Failure of Capitalism that managers bear no moral responsibility for the financial crisis. This view has numerous supporters in economics and philosophy, and I shall call it the ‘exemption view’. In this paper, I criticise four arguments for the exemption view and propose a superior alternative, the ‘participation view...

Globale Gerechtigkeit : Bamberger Hegelwoche 2000

Von der Mitte des 17. bis weit in die zweite Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts sind Lust (pleasure) und Unlust (pain) Leitbegriffe der britischen Moralphilosophie. Es war — zugespitzt gesagt — das Zeitalter der hedonistischen Glücksphilosophie. Bei allen Unterschieden in den jeweiligen theoretischen Ausformulierungen galt den britischen Philosophen jener...

The article distinguishes two models of self-realization. The independence model claims that self-realization is compatible with leading a non-moral life, whereas the dependence model argues the converse. Hegel's influential version of the dependence model aims at showing why and how self-realization must be embedded in a complex structure of reaso...

In this paper, we examine different forms of altruism. We commence by analysing the definition and, after clarifying its conditions for altruism, we argue that it is not in with everyday linguistic usage of the term. We therefore consider a definition, which we likewise refine, and argue that it better reflects ordinary language use. Both behaviour...

The article distinguishes two models of self-realization. The independence model claims that self-realization is compatible with leading a non-moral life, whereas the dependence model argues the converse. Hegel′s influential version of the dependence model aims at showing why and how self-realization must be embedded in a complex structure of reaso...

Multiple self approaches purport that to have equal concern about all stages of one's life is not a requirement of rationality. This poses a challenge to the prudential lifespan account which Norman Daniels advocates in Just health: meeting health needs fairly. Daniels has criticised the multiple self approach in earlier works, most extensively in...

This article distinguishes historical ills and historical injustices. It conceives of the latter as legalised natural crimes, committed by morally competent agents. A natural crime consists in the deliberate violation of a natural right. 'Legalised' means that the natural crime must be prescribed, permitted or tolerated by the legal system. I advoc...

John Stuart Mill prägt die gesellschaftlichen und moralischen Ideale der modernen Welt wie kaum ein anderer. Schriften wie On Liberty, Utilitarianism und System of Logic gehören zu den meist diskutierten Klassikern der philosophischen Tradition. Seine Subjection of Women ist ein Grundlagenwerk des modernen Feminismus, und in den Considerations on R...

In this paper we examine Fehr’s notions of “altruism”, “strong reciprocity” and “altruistic punishment” and query his ascription of altruism. We suggest that, pace Fehr, altruism cannot be defined behaviourally because the definition of altruism must refer to the motives of actors. We also advert to certain inconsistencies in Fehr’s usage of his te...

Transparency International, die internationale der Korruptionsbekämpfung gewidmete Nicht-Regierungsorganisation mit Sitz in Berlin, definiert Korruption als den heimlichen Missbrauch von öffentlicher oder privatwirtschaftlich eingeräumter Stellung oder Macht zum privaten Nutzen oder Vorteil1. Als Formen der Korruption nennt die Organisation: zum ei...

My comment on the third chapter of Peter Singer’s One World consists of two parts. In the first, I criticise a common but simplistic approach to the issue of economic globalisation. This approach presumes that charges against the WTO can be translated-more or less directly-into charges against current development trends of the global economy. The W...

In 1995 Queen Elizabeth II went to New Zealand to sign a bill settling the restoration of land wrongfully taken from the Maori almost 150 years previously and to apologise solemnly for connected injustices. Possibly encouraged by this so-called Waikato- Raupatu Claims Settlement Bill, the Jamaican government demanded reparations from the British go...

Titel auf dem Behältnis. Witten, Herdecke, PrivatUniversiẗat, Diss., 2001. Optische Speicherplatte.