Philosophy

In the dialogue between Heidegger and Hegel, Anton Sverdlikov develops an events metaphysics of the Absolute. He analyzes the historicity of philosophical thinking from an ontological perspective and relates it to problems of classical and contemporary metaphysics.

How can compassion be reimagined today from theological and philosophical perspectives? Daniel Gerte explores Johann Baptist Metz's theology of compassion within the broader context of his work and develops it further into the concept of a »mytho-compathic Christianity.«

Eilert Herms reconstructs Weinberg's description of the process of the cosmos and shows: The enduring presence of this process for inner-cosmic persons, who explore it, is not only the condition of possibility for this exploration, but also the real condition of possibility and the real medium of the process itself.

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.