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Klugheit und Moralitat werden gewohnlich fur gegensatzlich gehalten. Die Klugheit sagt uns, "Tue das, was Deinen Interessen am besten entspricht." Die Moralitat dagegen verlangt von jedem von uns, das Richtige zu tun. Unter dem "Richtigen" wird meist das verstanden, was fur jeden oder zumindest fur die meisten das Beste ist. Die Autoren des Bandes wenden sich dem Problemfeld eine Entscheidung zwischen Klugheit und Moralitat aus dem Blickwinkel der Spieltheorie zu. Sie versuchen nicht weniger als eine Theorie der praktischen Vernunft aufzustellen fur eine Welt, die naturwissenschaftlich und...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give ris e to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions tod ay are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philos ophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminen t figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Rog er Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the consc iousness wars. Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalme rs offers a cogent analysis of...

This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem.


In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to...