Library

A quiet archive

Philosophical Knowledge

Philosophy means to have a love for wisdom.

Guilt and Shame

When one has found the one’s true self, the good happens automatically.

Action

Hannah Arendt: Action an end in itself and not a means to achieve a goal.

Truth and Method

The distinction between Gadamer and Habermas seems to me to lie in their different emphasis on the concept of tradition.

Dwelling

Heidegger and René Descartes: To think clearly. To live truthfully. To be present.

The Highest Good

Thomas Aquinas: The Good, the Highest Good – and Why It Still Matters


Creative Meaning

A contribution to a human-scientific theory of action

Writing Oneself Into the World

On Academic Writing as Formation, Courage, and Practical Philosophy

Guilt Has a Face

On guilt, guilt feelings, and responsibility in everyday language.

When the Feeling of Guilt Lies

On false guilt, true responsibility, and the need to place guilt correctly

The Guilty Person Who Feels No Guilt

On the absence of guilt feelings, moral blindness, and responsibility

The Victim’s False Guilt

On how the person who is harmed may come to carry what another has done

Guilt as a Social Bond

On guilt, belonging, and responsibility in human relationships

Truth, Penance, and Forgiveness

On the way forward when guilt has been acknowledged

Thinking Without a Map

Peter Sloterdijk and the Courage to Live in a Complex World

When Ethics Becomes a Verb

Hannah Arendt on Action, Freedom, and Indifference

Where Is Shame Located?

On Emotions Between Brain, Body, and Interpretation

Breaking Point

On Illness as an Existential Experience

Why I Always Translate My Own Essays

On Slow Thinking and Translation as a Philosophical Method