Rüdiger Bittner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rüdiger Bittner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rüdiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Bittner |
| SIGNATURE | BITTNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Máximas
Bürger sein
The Germans are living beyond their conceptual means, relying on a set of political self-interpretations that do not make sense theoretically, the author asserts. He comes to this conclusion by analyzing the terms freedom, human dignity, human rights, justice, and democracy. Ultimately, he argues that Germany needs a new national self-understanding that goes beyond the myth and piety of the dominant political philosophy.
Nietzsche
This chapter discusses the history of the complete and reliable German texts, their origin and the way they were handed down to us, as well as the way the present selection has been made. It indicates some of the basic lines of argumentation and some of the philosophical import of these texts. The present selection of texts is based on the new edition by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (the KGW). The KGW numbers manuscripts chronologically wi…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung
The present reply to Peter Schaber’s critique of my paper Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung argues, first, that Schaber has no good grounds for maintaining that we have an obligation to respect every human being. Second, it explains why respect is not a fruitful attitude to take in the face of social divisions
Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung
While ‚Achtung‘ in ordinary German means either attention or esteem, Kant used the word, on the one hand, to indicate the attitude of those who do what is right for the reason that it is right (‚respect for the law‘), and on the other, to indicate an attitude that we are morally required to entertain towards all human beings (‚respect for humanity‘). What that attitude is and why we are bound to adopt it, does not become clear. Recent writers do …
Aus Gründen handeln
[Doing Things for Reasons] What exactly are the reasons for our actions, and how are they related to the results of these actions? The conventional doctrine is that these reasons are mental states of the actant, such as volition or opinion, but here a new thesis is developed; according to Bittner, our actions are motivated by states or events in the world. This answer, worked out and defended in detail, leads ultimately to a radical new conceptio…
Aus Grunden Handeln
Autonomy, and Then
Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others do or do not certain things to them. Kant's moral conception of autonomy, it is argued, is untenable bec…
Nietzsche's Postmoralism
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Wer verdrängt was warum? - Schwierigkeiten in Freuds Begriff der Verdrängung
Freud’s concept of repression should be discarded because we do not understand what supposedly is being repressed, nor what is repressing, nor why it is done. Freud’s answers to the first two questions fall short of the dynamic picture of forces and counterforces implicit in the idea of repression. The answer to the last question invokes an unacceptable separation of agencies in the person
Autonomy, and Then
Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others do or do not certain things to them. Kant's moral conception of autonomy, it is argued, is untenable bec…
Wer verdrängt was warum? - Schwierigkeiten in Freuds Begriff der Verdrängung
Freud’s concept of repression should be discarded because we do not understand what supposedly is being repressed, nor what is repressing, nor why it is done. Freud’s answers to the first two questions fall short of the dynamic picture of forces and counterforces implicit in the idea of repression. The answer to the last question invokes an unacceptable separation of agencies in the person
Nietzsche's Postmoralism
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Autonomy, and Then
Among the numerous conceptions of autonomy, three are particularly important: Kant's notion of humans' being subject, and subject only, to moral laws they gave themselves, Frankfurt's idea of persons' willing and acting deriving from the essential character of their wills, and the popular conception of persons' being master over whether others do or do not certain things to them. Kant's moral conception of autonomy, it is argued, is untenable bec…
Aus Gründen handeln
[Doing Things for Reasons] What exactly are the reasons for our actions, and how are they related to the results of these actions? The conventional doctrine is that these reasons are mental states of the actant, such as volition or opinion, but here a new thesis is developed; according to Bittner, our actions are motivated by states or events in the world. This answer, worked out and defended in detail, leads ultimately to a radical new conceptio…
Aus Grunden Handeln
Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung
The present reply to Peter Schaber’s critique of my paper Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung argues, first, that Schaber has no good grounds for maintaining that we have an obligation to respect every human being. Second, it explains why respect is not a fruitful attitude to take in the face of social divisions
Achtung und ihre moralische Bedeutung
While ‚Achtung‘ in ordinary German means either attention or esteem, Kant used the word, on the one hand, to indicate the attitude of those who do what is right for the reason that it is right (‚respect for the law‘), and on the other, to indicate an attitude that we are morally required to entertain towards all human beings (‚respect for humanity‘). What that attitude is and why we are bound to adopt it, does not become clear. Recent writers do …
Nietzsche
This chapter discusses the history of the complete and reliable German texts, their origin and the way they were handed down to us, as well as the way the present selection has been made. It indicates some of the basic lines of argumentation and some of the philosophical import of these texts. The present selection of texts is based on the new edition by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (the KGW). The KGW numbers manuscripts chronologically wi…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Bürger sein
The Germans are living beyond their conceptual means, relying on a set of political self-interpretations that do not make sense theoretically, the author asserts. He comes to this conclusion by analyzing the terms freedom, human dignity, human rights, justice, and democracy. Ultimately, he argues that Germany needs a new national self-understanding that goes beyond the myth and piety of the dominant political philosophy.
Máximas
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Morality (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)