Michael Steinmann – författare

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism. During the course of this discussion, the notion of property has become a key concept. Focusing on practical and conceptual perspectives, the multidisciplinary group of authors, which includes specialists in philosophy, law, sociology, biology and medicine, have come together with practicing lawyers to consider both legal provisions and patterns of regulation in countries across Europe. Identifying divergences between different legal traditions, the authors explore various conceptual models which could be used to improve and to guide policy making. With this twin focus on practical and conceptual perspectives, this volume sets the standard for a detailed and innovative discussion of issues surrounding the regulation of research on human tissue.

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism. During the course of this discussion, the notion of property has become a key concept. Focusing on practical and conceptual perspectives, the multidisciplinary group of authors, which includes specialists in philosophy, law, sociology, biology and medicine, have come together with practicing lawyers to consider both legal provisions and patterns of regulation in countries across Europe. Identifying divergences between different legal traditions, the authors explore various conceptual models which could be used to improve and to guide policy making. With this twin focus on practical and conceptual perspectives, this volume sets the standard for a detailed and innovative discussion of issues surrounding the regulation of research on human tissue.

A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the “failure of morality” both in classical and contemporary positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the fundamental notion of moral thought.Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of “the absolute good” as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to understand competing moral claims, without simply reproducing neo-Aristotelian literature on the good life. From the perspective of the good, the study allows us to take non-traditional theories more seriously, making space for moral philosophy to acknowledge and embrace the contradictions that all positions incur.

A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail. Using the dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims as his starting point, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the “failure of morality” both in classical and contemporary positions. As moral claims lead in various ways to contradictions, the history of morality presents itself as an endless series of controversies. By using dialectical thinking, which has gone out of favour in current philosophy, Steinmann shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way. Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges as the fundamental notion of moral thought.Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics reinvigorates the classical notion of “the absolute good” as a fruitful conceptual structure through which to understand competing moral claims, without simply reproducing neo-Aristotelian literature on the good life. From the perspective of the good, the study allows us to take non-traditional theories more seriously, making space for moral philosophy to acknowledge and embrace the contradictions that all positions incur.

Heideggers Beschäftigung mit der Sprache ist vielfältig und bestimmt sein Denken von Beginn an bis zu seinem Ende. Gleichwohl folgt sie einem Grundgedanken: Sprache ist in ihrem Wesen als 'Verbindungsoffenheit' charakterisiert. Hiervon ausgehend rekonstruiert Michael Steinmann Heideggers Sprachphilosophie in ihrem systematischen Zusammenhang. Dabei legt er die frühen Arbeiten zur Logik, Sein und Zeit sowie das spätere Werk Unterwegs zur Sprache zugrunde. Der Gedanke der Verbindungsoffenheit wird von Heidegger zunächst an der Synthesestruktur des Urteils expliziert. Nicht die gegebene Beziehung zwischen den Gehalten, sondern die Möglichkeit, verschiedene Gehalte in Beziehung zu bringen, macht das Wesen des Urteils aus. Erst auf diese Weise löst sich die Logik von der Bindung an bestimmte Wissenschaften oder Erkenntnisgebiete.Michael Steinmann zeigt, daß dieser Gedanke problemgeschichtlich in die Debatten des Neukantianismus eingebettet ist. Diese rekonstruiert er ausführlich. 'Sein und Zeit' entwickelt im Anschluß daran eine dynamische Bedeutungstheorie, welche die Offenheit für Bestimmungen und ihre Kombination als Grundlage der Sprache versteht. Dabei wird in diesem Kontext auch das hermeneutische Verhältnis der Sprache zur Zeit deutlich. Angesichts des Spätwerks erläutert Michael Steinmann, daß die oftmals esoterisch anmutenden Texte Heideggers dennoch argumentativ nachvollzogen werden können. Im Zentrum steht die Einsicht, daß Bedeutung nicht notwendig intentional begründet ist. Vielmehr evoziert das Sprechen einen Verweisungsspielraum von Dingen und Welt.