Friday evening, I went to the vernissage of the temporary exhibition 'Life in upheaval Bavaria 1918 – 1925: Between democracy, self-determination and violence' at the Historisches Museum in Bayreuth. The exhibition is the result of the work of my colleague Julia Eichenberg, at the Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte of the University of Bayreuth, who supervised her... Continue Reading →
Semana de la Ciencia y de la Innovación
El próximo 16 de noviembre de 2024 realizaremos el taller titulado "Valores y ciencia en la biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial" en el marco de la Semana de la Ciencia y de la Innovación de la Fundación para el Conocimiento Madri+D.
What's privacy got to do with moral philosophy? I'm glad you asked. An answer is in my new post on the Centre for Privacy Studies blog.
Privacy and moral philosophy
The Education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)
History of European Ideas. Published online 12 June 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615 https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615. ABSTRACT This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably naming Sulzer as a philosophical influence 10 years later. Examining the pupils’ life at the... Continue Reading →
On Nussbaum, cosmopolitanism and patriotism (and nationalism)
Martha C. Nussbaum, professor at University of Chicago Law School, published in 1994 an article praising a "cosmopolitan stoic education" over a "national education" that started debates in the English speaking world about cosmopolitanism. The article is a reaction against Richard Rorty and Sheldon Hackney, and is therefore answering an internal Northern American debate. Published... Continue Reading →
