Bøger af Michael Steinmann

Die Anziehungskraft, die von Friedrich Nietzsches Denken ausgeht, ist bis heute ungebrochen. Zahlreiche Schlagwörter aus seiner Philosophie sind in aller Munde – dass er auch Musik komponiert hat, mag viele überraschen. Das Hörbuch des Nietzsche-Experten Michael Steinmann stellt sowohl den Denker als auch den Komponisten vor. So wird dem ohnehin schon schillernden Bild Friedrich Nietzsches eine weitere und besonders faszinierende Facette hinzugefügt. Klavierstücke und Gedichtvertonungen stehen hier neben gut verständlichen Einführungstexten in das komplexe und doch so vitale Gedankengebäude des berühmten Freigeistes. Etliche der Musikstücke – etwa der Choral "Jesus meine Zuversicht" oder der "Zigeunertanz" für Klavier sind Ersteinspielungen. So bietet das Hörbuch eine Reise durch das Leben, Denken und Schaffen Nietzsches von der Kindheit im Pfarrhaus bis zum Ende in geistiger Umnachtung.

A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the "failure of morality" both in classical and contemporary positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the fundamental notion of moral thought.Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of "the absolute good" as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to understand competing moral claims, without simply reproducing neo-Aristotelian literature on the good life. From the perspective of the good, the study allows us to take non-traditional theories more seriously, making space for moral philosophy to acknowledge and embrace the contradictions that all positions incur.

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