Philosophy

The anniversary volume »SAPERE Syntheses« takes stock of twenty-five years of editorial and commentary work. Distinguished representatives of various disciplines engage in a fascinating dialogue of research, grounded in ancient voices, and discuss the topics of »truth,« »life,« »the human being,« and »the world.«

The problem of natural theology has become more acute in late modernity. With impulses from the philosophy of religion, problem-historical analyses and contemporary systematic-theological reflections, the contributors to this volume undertake a reassessment of the problem field of natural theology.

Literature or textbook? In antiquity, no clear distinction was made in this respect, as Christian Neumann demonstrates regarding the complex interplay of literary design and didactic function in Plutarch's Quaestiones Graecae and Romanae and Gellius' Noctes Atticae.

The multidimensional nature of human existence, characterized by freedom, ambivalence and the pursuit of meaning, requires both technical and ethical criteria of judgment. Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt illuminates this conflict in the context of the Creator-creature relationship and recognizes creatureliness as the basis of human freedom.