Philosophy

Tabea Laura Aimée Ott explores visibility as an ethical topos linked to recognition, agency, and vulnerability. She shows why 'being visible' is ethically significant and develops perspectives for a fair approach to digital data images between invisibility and exposure.

This volume presents Justin's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, the first surviving literary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, with a new German translation of the Greek text, an introduction, explanatory notes, and thematic essays.

In this volume, leading experts examine the life and thought of Bardaisan († 222) through a newly prepared bilingual Syriac-English edition of, and commentary on, the Book of the Law of Countries alongside the extant Greek fragments. These sources showcase Bardaisan's arguments on human intellect, free will, fate, astrology, cosmology, eschatology, and the concept of universal restoration.

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.