Tag: philosophy
Robert Brandom: “In the Spirit of Trust” – Culture
Philosophers who have a soft spot for the esoteric should be taken at their word. So if someone writes that they have been reading a text from scratch for 25…
Philosophy of Translation – Culture
When Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb” appeared in German translation at the beginning of the year, half the republic set out for a popular parlor game: Find the…
Interview with philosopher Peter Singer: “We have to prioritize” – culture
How do we act morally in a complex world? And: should you really work yourself out to help others? A conversation with the philosopher Peter Singer about his approach of…
“The Life of Simone de Beauvoir” by Alois Prinz – Kultur
The problem with this new Simone de Beauvoir biography is that it is not a Sartre biography. As you read it, the suspicion that this would have been the better…
Psychology: happiness in pain
The children scream, the work overwhelmed: Would a life without exertion be worth striving for? Probably not, say psychologists. About the joy of suffering. .source site
Psychology: Why Stress and Hardship Are Important to People – Knowledge
The children scream, the work overwhelmed: Would a life without exertion be worth striving for? Not at all, it is the agony and effort that make people feel meaningful. from…
Cuvilliéstheater Munich: “The clouds, the birds, the wealth” – culture
You have to be very determined these days to want to go to the theater in Bavaria. 2 G plus applies at 25 percent occupancy. That is moderately attractive, for…
Corona dispute in “Hard but Fair”: Defiance and prejudice – culture
from Laura Hertreiter and Nele Pollatschek Svenja Flaßpöhler could be harshly judged. Because much of what the philosopher, editor-in-chief of the Philosophy magazine and a permanent talk show participant in…
The philosopher Charles Taylor turns 90 – culture
Anyone who recognizes the real as reasonable and the reasonable as real thinks Hegelian, simply has good nerves, little empathy or a rather strange sense of humor. And yet there…
Pandemic Whispers: Film by Alexander Kluge and Helge Schneider – Munich
Little can be expected to illuminate the bum of an elephant. The shooting conditions for a film behind the thick skin should also be extremely unfavorable. And there’s nothing there…