Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Heft 32.2/2007

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Abhandlungen:

• Werner Stegmaier: Zur Frage der Verständlichkeit. Nietzsches Beitrag zum interkulturellen Kommunizieren und Philosophieren
  Abstract

  With Nietzsche the question of intercultural communication and philosophy can be scrutinized more thoroughly. In his wake one wishes just as well to be understood as not to be understood. Granting that culture is that which has become commonly understood, Nietzsche purposefully exposes his readers to experiments of comprehension in order to delimit certain culture areas to which one might seek access but from which one might also, willingly or unwillingly, be excluded. In this way he chooses his readers, selects them – and even tells them so. His philosophizing is aimed at surprising the readers, daring them to accept the challenge – which they might also decline, thus sparing them. This acts as a prototype of all intercultural and interpersonal communication. One will leave it and even has to leave it to those who belong to the other culture areas in how far 34492_br_AZP32_2 30.05.2007 10:32 Uhr Seite 107 they will accept to engage with one’s own culture area and one will equally only understand others in the range of one’s own culture area. Without any coercion to understanding and with the ability to leave surprising matters be, intercultural and interpersonal communication becomes cheerful and science, according to Nietzsche, »gay«.
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• Denis Thouard: Über den Gegenstand der Hermeneutik
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  Neither the recognition of a transcendent foundation of meaning nor the assumption of a universally shared reason have brought us close to a sufficient concept of hermeneutics, one that should recognize the sensibility of signs as well as the claim to a universal validity of their sense. In understanding, one should aim at what is being judged in a text, considered as a performance that changes the system of a language in a unique way by making a particular use of the codes and rules of the system. Thus, hermeneutics interprets an already interpretative text, not by entering into a dialogue with it, but by recognizing the interpretation enclosed in it as the signature of another subjectivity.
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• Dagmar Fenner: Menschenwürde – Eine »Leerformel«? Das Konzept »Menschenwürde« in der BioethikBuy article
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  Within bioethical debate, more and more the lustrous term »human dignity« is brought into play. Yet often it is merely a »winning argument«. This contribution tries – in the midst of inflationary language use – to develop a consensual concept of human dignity, which could contribute to the solution of bioethical controversies. Firstly a demarcation is sought to the »contingent human dignity« (1) and the »paradoxes of human dignity« are being elucidated (2). Then we distinguish between the »generic point of view« (3) and the »individual point of view« (4), whereas the latter can be specified to »inner dignity« (4.1) and the »depiction of dignity« (4.2). Each theoretical discussion includes an exemplary application within the field of euthanasia.

Berichte und Diskussionen:

• Guy Guldentops / Andreas Speer / Michele Trizio / David Wirmer: Philosophische Kommentare im Mittelalter – Zugänge und Orientierungen. Erster TeilBuy article
• Paul Tiedemann: Gibt es Pflichten gegen sich selbst? – Ja! Eine Replik auf Achim LohmarBuy article

Buchbesprechungen:

• Michael Kühler: Tobias Hoffmann / Jörn Müller / Matthias Perkams (Hg.), Das Problem der Willensschwäche in der mittelalterlichen PhilosophieBuy article
• Andreas Luckner: Thomas Rentsch, Gott.Buy article