The essay first distinguishes the positive sense of cosmopolitanism from exist other concepts of cosmopolitanism. It explores whether global peace and cosmopolitanism are merely big illusions. Doing so, it examines S. Huntington’s view on clash of civ . . .

I fell in love with philosophy very early. A decisive event and great gift in my life was that the great philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand, one of the most outspoken intellectual enemies of Nazi ideology,1 was a close friend of my parents and visite . . .

While Aristotle does not consider (as Libet) the physical universe causally closed, his understanding of causality is insufficient: 1. Aristotle does not grasp the indispensable role of persons for the “four causes” he distinguishes: Physical efficien . . .

I chose the topic of forgiveness for this presentation. It was the subject of my very first philosophical essay, a very long one of 58 pages that I wrote between 1957 and 1959, between age 12 and 14. I had read (enthusiastically devoured) before a ver . . .

Libet’s attempt to explain positive free acts (which he denies) in terms of physiological brain causes fails: Efficient causality has an inherent relation to persons; personal wills are primary/superior forms of efficient causes and the only efficient . . .

This paper explores the nature of crimes against humanity and the moments that distinguish such a kind of crime. It indicates that such crime is featured by a quantitative magnitude and number of victims and the qualitative “inhumanity”. By this token . . .

Moral obligations and basic human rights must be distinguished from each other and from positive rights and laws. Ethics and basic human rights rest on human dignity. The right to life is shown to be a natural and “absolute right,” but it is also in a . . .

In his excellent paper “Perfection and Imperfection of Josef Seifert’s Theory of Pure Perfections,” Rogelio Rovira has formulated with precision Anselm of Canterbury’s philosophical discovery of the pure perfections and Duns Scotus‘ refinements of thi . . .

There is a purely historical notion of “Early Phenomenology” (from the late 19th century to 1939), a period during which Husserl’s move towards transcendental phenomenology (1905 and 1913) has occurred that led to the break between him and almost the . . .

Ten years after writing Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl, in his famous and sole Logos essay, defended the thesis that philosophy ought to be a 'rigorous science' and described this goal of philosophy as an "ideal" that 'has never been completel . . .