Ulrich Steinvorth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4300622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich Steinvorth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinvorth |
| SIGNATURE | STEINVORTH U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its History
Unterdrückung durch Beglückung. Eine liberale Revision der politischen Philosophie
Was ist eine Demokratie, und wann ist sie liberal? Ist Politik legitim, wenn sie der Volkssouveränität oder wenn sie den Menschenrechten entspricht? Was kann und was sollte man von der Politik erwarten, was ist überhaupt Politik? Ulrich Steinvorth sucht in diesem Buch neue Antworten auf diese in der gegenwärtigen politischen Lage brandaktuellen Fragen. Ausgehend von Aldous Huxleys Fabel »Brave New World«, die eine Gesellschaft beschreibt, in der …
A Secular Absolute
A Secular Absolute
Secularization
Applying the Idea of Solidarity to Europe
Zhuangzi and Wittgenstein on the Self
We criticize an approach to culture theory requiring us to start investigations from presuming different conceptions of crucial terms in historical sources such as self, rather than from relying on an uncontroversial sense understood in all civilizations. We argue that we can understand the differences between concepts in different civilizations better by first clarifying the commonalities that are given in the uncontroversial sense. For our clai…
Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
Gerechtigkeit und Politik
The Right to Work and the Right to Develop One’s Capabilities
I understand the claim that there is a right to work as the claim that involuntary unemployment is an injustice that requires of justice enforcement institutions to stop it. I argue that in present conditions of high productivity it is more consistent with the liberal tradition to proclaim a right to develop one’s capabilities than a right to work. The steps of my argument are: (1) An important though not the only reason for considering unemploym…
Reply to Schlothfeldt
Recognition is an important function of labour, as Schlothfeld claims, but only under given capitalist conditions. It is the very point of the introduction of basic income, if embedded in a suitable education system, that it would allow people to receive recognition from all kinds of activities they regard as meaningful rather than from stultifying wage labour
On Critical Theory
I propose a conception of critical theory that is an alternative to that of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. It is based on the assumptions that critical theory is not unique but started off with the 5 th century BC movement of the sophists that aimed at an understanding of society free from superstition and prejudice, can be better understood by considering the history of social thinking, does not look for knowledge for knowledge’s sake but fo…
Kann das Grundeinkommen die Arbeitslosigkeit abbauen
I agree with Van Parijs that a theory of justice must meet the condition of indicating institutions that eliminate compulsory unemployment, but argue that his basic income is another form of unemployment compensation with all the disadvantages such compensations suffer from. In particular, it does not advance real freedom, but is liable to contribute to narrow political ends. I indicate an alternative and explicate, since Van Parijs disregards it…
Gleiche Freiheit
Steiner’s Justice
Hillel Steiner is a libertarian who takes the equal right to natural resources seriously. Though there are objections to some of the conclusions he draws from this right, his approach might avoid the vices of liberalism and socialism and combine their virtues
Macht oder Metaphysik
Our acting and thinking can be guided by two ends which may combine but are irreducible nevertheless: the end of satisfying one’s interests and the end of distinguishing between true and false, right and wrong. Recognition of the difference between these ends led philosophers before the modem age to contrasting the life of power and the life of spirit or mind. Modern philosophers, in particular pragmatists, utilitarians and communication theorist…
Max Webers System der verstehenden Soziologie
Modellkonstruktion und empirische Uberpriifbarkeit in Marx’ ‚Kapital‘
One of the first objections raised against Marx’ Kapital was that it was an idealistic construction a priori of capitalist economy. Since Marx agreed that his book could seem to be so, we may assume that the analyses of Kapital are not only empirical. I try to show that (1) the analyses of the first chapters of Kapital give a conceptual construction of a model of commodity exchange made up both of generally recognized and of new definitions of co…
The Ideological Sources of Wittgenstein's Ethics
Levi has argued that there are two enigmas in Wittgenstein's work and life that can only be explained by his sense of guilt caused by his homosexuality. Enigma 1 is why Wittgenstein advocated a transnatural, two-world ethics; enigma 2, why he accused himself to be a swine in the Engelmann letters. Presented this way, Levi gives little offense or reason for criticism. In particular his solution for the enigma of Wittgenstein's self-accusations see…
Böhm-Bawerks Marx-Kritik. Eine Kritik ihrer Engelsschen Voraussetzungen / Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of Marx. A Critique of its Engelsian Presupposition
Böhm-Bawerk in his refutation as well as Engels in his defence of Marx’s economical theory presuppose an interpretation of Marx’s theory of value which agrees with the third volume of Capital, but not with the first volume which was written later. The first volume’s theory of value, though written as its fist chapter, is not an argument to be accepted before accepting the analyses of commodity economy which follow, but a summary of the results of…
Marx's Theory of Value
Engels' interpretation of Marx's economic theory of value. which has been widely accepted up to this day, is based on Marx's approach to a theory of value in his third volume of Capital. But the theory of value of the first volume of Capital, implied by Marx's analyses in the first volume of Capital and only summarized in its first chapter, is inconsistent with the third volume's approach. It is consistent with theories of value which do not hold…
The Right to Work and the Right to Develop One’s Capabilities
I understand the claim that there is a right to work as the claim that involuntary unemployment is an injustice that requires of justice enforcement institutions to stop it. I argue that in present conditions of high productivity it is more consistent with the liberal tradition to proclaim a right to develop one’s capabilities than a right to work. The steps of my argument are: (1) An important though not the only reason for considering unemploym…
Max Webers System der verstehenden Soziologie
Böhm-Bawerks Marx-Kritik. Eine Kritik ihrer Engelsschen Voraussetzungen / Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of Marx. A Critique of its Engelsian Presupposition
Böhm-Bawerk in his refutation as well as Engels in his defence of Marx’s economical theory presuppose an interpretation of Marx’s theory of value which agrees with the third volume of Capital, but not with the first volume which was written later. The first volume’s theory of value, though written as its fist chapter, is not an argument to be accepted before accepting the analyses of commodity economy which follow, but a summary of the results of…
Marx's Theory of Value
Engels' interpretation of Marx's economic theory of value. which has been widely accepted up to this day, is based on Marx's approach to a theory of value in his third volume of Capital. But the theory of value of the first volume of Capital, implied by Marx's analyses in the first volume of Capital and only summarized in its first chapter, is inconsistent with the third volume's approach. It is consistent with theories of value which do not hold…
Modellkonstruktion und empirische Uberpriifbarkeit in Marx’ ‚Kapital‘
One of the first objections raised against Marx’ Kapital was that it was an idealistic construction a priori of capitalist economy. Since Marx agreed that his book could seem to be so, we may assume that the analyses of Kapital are not only empirical. I try to show that (1) the analyses of the first chapters of Kapital give a conceptual construction of a model of commodity exchange made up both of generally recognized and of new definitions of co…
The Ideological Sources of Wittgenstein's Ethics
Levi has argued that there are two enigmas in Wittgenstein's work and life that can only be explained by his sense of guilt caused by his homosexuality. Enigma 1 is why Wittgenstein advocated a transnatural, two-world ethics; enigma 2, why he accused himself to be a swine in the Engelmann letters. Presented this way, Levi gives little offense or reason for criticism. In particular his solution for the enigma of Wittgenstein's self-accusations see…
Max Webers System der verstehenden Soziologie
Macht oder Metaphysik
Our acting and thinking can be guided by two ends which may combine but are irreducible nevertheless: the end of satisfying one’s interests and the end of distinguishing between true and false, right and wrong. Recognition of the difference between these ends led philosophers before the modem age to contrasting the life of power and the life of spirit or mind. Modern philosophers, in particular pragmatists, utilitarians and communication theorist…
Steiner’s Justice
Hillel Steiner is a libertarian who takes the equal right to natural resources seriously. Though there are objections to some of the conclusions he draws from this right, his approach might avoid the vices of liberalism and socialism and combine their virtues
Gleiche Freiheit
Kann das Grundeinkommen die Arbeitslosigkeit abbauen
I agree with Van Parijs that a theory of justice must meet the condition of indicating institutions that eliminate compulsory unemployment, but argue that his basic income is another form of unemployment compensation with all the disadvantages such compensations suffer from. In particular, it does not advance real freedom, but is liable to contribute to narrow political ends. I indicate an alternative and explicate, since Van Parijs disregards it…
On Critical Theory
I propose a conception of critical theory that is an alternative to that of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. It is based on the assumptions that critical theory is not unique but started off with the 5 th century BC movement of the sophists that aimed at an understanding of society free from superstition and prejudice, can be better understood by considering the history of social thinking, does not look for knowledge for knowledge’s sake but fo…
Gerechtigkeit und Politik
The Right to Work and the Right to Develop One’s Capabilities
I understand the claim that there is a right to work as the claim that involuntary unemployment is an injustice that requires of justice enforcement institutions to stop it. I argue that in present conditions of high productivity it is more consistent with the liberal tradition to proclaim a right to develop one’s capabilities than a right to work. The steps of my argument are: (1) An important though not the only reason for considering unemploym…
Reply to Schlothfeldt
Recognition is an important function of labour, as Schlothfeld claims, but only under given capitalist conditions. It is the very point of the introduction of basic income, if embedded in a suitable education system, that it would allow people to receive recognition from all kinds of activities they regard as meaningful rather than from stultifying wage labour
Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
Secularization
Applying the Idea of Solidarity to Europe
Zhuangzi and Wittgenstein on the Self
We criticize an approach to culture theory requiring us to start investigations from presuming different conceptions of crucial terms in historical sources such as self, rather than from relying on an uncontroversial sense understood in all civilizations. We argue that we can understand the differences between concepts in different civilizations better by first clarifying the commonalities that are given in the uncontroversial sense. For our clai…
A Secular Absolute
A Secular Absolute
Unterdrückung durch Beglückung. Eine liberale Revision der politischen Philosophie
Was ist eine Demokratie, und wann ist sie liberal? Ist Politik legitim, wenn sie der Volkssouveränität oder wenn sie den Menschenrechten entspricht? Was kann und was sollte man von der Politik erwarten, was ist überhaupt Politik? Ulrich Steinvorth sucht in diesem Buch neue Antworten auf diese in der gegenwärtigen politischen Lage brandaktuellen Fragen. Ausgehend von Aldous Huxleys Fabel »Brave New World«, die eine Gesellschaft beschreibt, in der …
A Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its History
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