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| About the Series | |
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| Editor's Foreword to the English Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: World History of Ethical Systems | |
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| Origin of the Interregional System: Afro-Bantu Egypt and the Semites of the Middle East | |
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| Cultures without Direct Links to the System: The Mesoamerican and Inca Worlds | |
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| The "Indoeuropean" World: From the Chinese to the Roman Empire | |
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| The Byzantine World, Muslim Hegemony, and the East: The European Medieval Periphery | |
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| Unfolding of the World System: From "Modern" Spain of the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Modernity as "Management" of Planetary Centrality and Its Contemporary Crisis | |
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| The Liberation of Philosophy? | |
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| Foundation of Ethics | |
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| The Material Moment of Ethics: Practical Truth | |
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| The Human Cerebral Cognitive and Affective-Appetitive System | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Communitarianism | |
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| Some Ethics of Content or Material Ethics | |
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| The Criterion and Universal Material Principle of Ethics | |
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| Formal Morality: Intersubjective Validity | |
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| The Transcendental Morality of Immanuel Kant | |
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| The Neocontractualist Formalism of John Rawls | |
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| The "Discourse Ethics" of Karl-Otto Apel | |
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| The Formal Morality of J�rgen Habermas | |
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| The Criterion of Validity and the Universal, Formal Principle of Morality | |
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| Ethical Feasibility and the "Goodness Claim" | |
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| The Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce | |
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| The Pragmatic Realism of Hilary Putnam | |
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| The Functional or Formal "System" of Niklas Luhmann | |
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| The "Feasibility" of Franz Hinkelammert | |
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| The Criterion and the Ethical Principle of Feasibility | |
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| Critical Ethics, Antihegemonic Validity, and the Praxis of Liberation | |
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| The Ethical Criticism of the Prevailing System: From the Perspective of the Negativity of the Victims | |
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| Marx's Critique of Political Economics | |
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| The "Negative" and the "Material" in Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Benjamin | |
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| The Dialectics of Drive | |
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| "Sensibility" and "Alterity" in Emmanuel Levinas | |
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| The Critical Criterion and the Material or Ethical-Critical Principle | |
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| The Antihegemonic Validity of the Community of Victims | |
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| Rigoberta Mench� | |
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| The Ethical-Critical Process of Paulo Freire | |
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| Functionalist and Critical Paradigms | |
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| The "Principle of Hope" of Ernst Bloch | |
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| The Critical-Discursive Criterion and the Principle of Validity | |
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| The Liberation Principle | |
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| The "Organization Question": From Vanguard toward Symmetric Participation-Theory and Praxis? | |
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| The "Issue of the Subject": Emergence of New Sociohistorical Actors | |
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| The "Reform-Transformation Question" | |
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| The "Question of Violence": Legitimate Coercion, Violence, and the Praxis of Liberation | |
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| The Critical Criterion of Feasibility and the Liberation Principle | |
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| Some Theses in Order of Appearance in the Text | |
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| Sais: Capital of Egypt | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |