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Das "System der Sittlichkeit" (1802/03) stellt die erste Vorform von Hegels Philosophie des Geistes dar. In seinem Versuch einer philosophischen Rekonstruktion der Sittlichkeit fragt Hegel, wie sich das moderne Subjekt in die verschiedenen Sphären des gesellschaftlichen und politischen Lebens integriert. Er sucht nach den Bindungskräften, die das in seiner Persönlichkeit dem Anspruch nach unverletzliche Individuum vor Isolierung und Entfremdung bewahren und ein erfülltes Zusammenleben sowie die Verwirklichung von Freiheit sichern sollen. Hegels Manuskript, das nach heutigem Sprachgebrauch die früheste systematische Gestalt seiner praktischen Philosophie enthält, gilt als einer der schwierigsten Texte der Philosophiegeschichte. Nun liegt erstmals ein durchgehender Kommentar dieses zentralen Werks vor. Das Buch gewährt umfassenden Einblick in Entstehungsbedingungen und Rezeptionsgeschichte sowie Aufbau und Argumentationsgang des Textes und analysiert dessen Bestreben, Philosophie mit Gesellschafts- und Sozialtheorie zu verbinden. Zahlreiche Einsichten, die im "System der Sittlichkeit" erstmals formuliert und hier rekonstruiert werden, gehören heute wie selbstverständlich zum anerkannten Wissensstand. In gewisser Hinsicht nimmt diese frühe Gestalt der Hegelschen Philosophie sogar nachhegelsches Philosophieren vorweg.

Mythen dienen der Bewältigung praktischer gesellschaftlicher Probleme, sie bieten Anleitungen zum poietischen und praktisch-politischen Handeln - dies bildet das einigende Band der im vorliegenden Buch versammelten Beiträge.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: In an environment of fast and consistent technological progress, globalization and growing competition, companies are facing a strong pressure nowadays. The knowledge-based economy leads to a growing extent of client-side requirements forcing more and more companies and organizations to realign their business activities in a new way in order to cope with the current economic situation. Cost-efficiency, presence in the markets and the possibility to gather the best employees in their own organization are the central starting points of a strategy to position for the future. One specific measure is the decentralization of teams, that shall work together to jointly reach their targets. The proceeding digitalization of the media and virtualization of several areas of life pander to this development of decentralization as the new electronic communication systems facilitate the interaction between the decentralized team members and enable the companies to enlarge their attempts concerning remote offices. The present term paper particularly deals with the problems arising within decentralized teams. It examines the negative consequences of group efficiency in virtual intercultural teams, making several assumptions how the perception of Workplace Isolation affects the employees negatively and provides recommendations for virtual team leaders in order to recognize and counteract these problems. In the form of a flow chart, this term paper provides a course of procedure for the successful implementation of a virtual team with a minimized risk of workplace isolation. This flow chart considers the prevailing scientific view on this topic. The author works for a listed multinational corporation as a member of an international sales team with intercultural structures. For this reason, from the very start there has been a particular interest in the findings and insights to be obtained in the framework of the work for this term paper. In course of the work the author gained further knowledge about the design and successful implementation of high-performing virtual teams.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: The competitiveness and the ability of economic growth and the local living standards are closely related to a country's infrastructure quality and volume. After World War II, in Europe huge investments in infrastructure, such as roads, railways or hospitals were traditionally financed by public sources, such as tax revenues, over-printing of money or borrowings. Today, especially in the developing countries there is a huge demand for infrastructure investments. There exist so-called infrastructure gaps : In order to improve the standard of living and the attractiveness of a country and econ-omy, the segments of transport, electricity generation, transmission as well as water and telecommunications are essential. The main problem for governments is that Infrastructure projects within these segments usually have a huge extent and require a lot of capital, which often is not available. The OECD estimates that there exists a global infrastructure investment requirement of 71 trillion dollars by the year 2030 only to improve the basic infrastructure. But also in Europe there is an important demand for infrastructure investments. Today, post financial crisis, the TEN-T pro-gram which started in 2014 and also the energy distribution networks or the power plants will require very huge amounts of capital in the coming years and decades, while the political and economic situation is rather uncertain. The forms of financing projects like the above mentioned have changed substantially: Over the past years and decades, severe budget constraints and inefficient manage-ment of infrastructure projects by public entities have led to an increased involvement of private investors in the business of infrastructure financing. This development has attached more and more importance to concrete strategies of private financing forms or partnerships. In recent years this private funding has increasingly taken the form of project finance. So there are basically the following questions: What exactly is project finance, how can a partnership between a public and a private entity be es-tablished and how can this construct help to solve the problem of the mentioned infrastructure gap? The scope of project finance, the different forms and the critical success factors and the meaning for infrastructure finance are the subject of this assignment.

Das äußere Erscheinungsbild von Beamten wirft durch die jüngste Prozesslawine – in der zumeist junge Bewerber für den Polizeivollzugsdienst aufgrund ihrer Tätowierung abgelehnt wurden – neue Problemfelder auf. Ausgehend von der Entwicklung eines tauglichen "Prüfschemas", das insbesondere der in vielerlei Hinsicht konzeptionslosen Rechtsprechung geschuldet ist, bedarf es der genauen Analyse in welcher Beziehung Art. 33 Abs. 2 GG, beamtenrechtliche Dienstpflichten und Art. 2 Abs. 1 GG zueinander stehen. Dieses – insoweit mehrgliedrige – Spannungsverhältnis wird ferner durch den Faktor der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz und des hieraus resultierenden Auslegungsbedürfnisses verstärkt und wirkt sich überdies auf das Verhältnis zwischen behördlicher Einschätzungsprärogative und gerichtlicher Kontrolle aus. Zuletzt wird anhand dieses entwickelten Schemas eine Kategorisierung der Tätowierung unter Berücksichtigung ihres pflichtwidrigen und insoweit eignungsabträglichen Charakters vorgenommen.

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