Volume 70 (2016), Issue 4

Consent makes acts permissible that would otherwise be impermissible. But how is this done by consent? And can any act be made permissible, or are there acts that are morally wrong even if affected persons have given their consent? These two...

Kant's chief preoccupation revolves around the question ,,what is the human being?", which, belonging in the tradition of Western philosophy, conceives of ,,morals" as being conducive to ,,religion". Subsequently this crucial issue fell victim to...

This paper aims to historically problematize Bogen and Woodward's data-phenomena distinction. In the first section, we critically deal with it from a descriptive point of view. We argue that it merely has a narrow validity. It can indeed be employed...

In his recent book Gott denken, Holm Tetens argues for a theist claim. Some of his arguments for this claim are based on his criticism of a particular account of science that Tetens attributes to atheists. This account of science consists in the...

The main topic of this paper is ,,subjectivity" as the fundamental form of every subject. Subjectivity is hereby characterised as the capacity of the corporeal subject to orient himself spatiotemporally and to produce its relation to the world. The...