What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.

The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and objectivist answers, confronting concepts of meaning with notions of happiness and morality, and considering the idea of human life's meaning both sub specie aeternitatis and in view of the world's finitude and contingency. The volume assembles contributions from leading scholars in the field, including John Cottingham, John Kekes, Iddo Landau, Dag T. Andersson, Robert B. Louden, Christoph Horn, and Bernard Reginster.

Der spannungsreichen Beziehung zwischen dem Aufklarer aus Koenigsberg und seinem Kritiker und Nachfahren Nietzsche widmete sich im Kant-Jahr 2004 eine Internationale Konferenz der Deutschen Nietzsche-Gesellschaft. Die Beitrage zeichnen die Scheidewege, die Kant und Nietzsche in unterschiedliche Richtungen fuhren, aber auch ihre Verbindungslinien nach - mit Blick auf die von beiden Philosophen massgeblich beeinflussten aktuellen Diskussionen zu Reichweite und Grenzen der Rationalitat, zu Problemen der Ethik, der AEsthetik, der Natur- und Geschichtsphilosophie.

The Proceedings present the contributions to the 13th International Kant Congress which was held at the University of Oslo, August 6-9, 2019. The congress, which hosted speakers from more than thirty countries and five continents, was dedicated to the topic of the court of reason. The idea that reason stands before itself as a tribunal characterizes the whole of Kant's critical project. Without such a court, reason falls into conflict with itself. With such a court in place, however, it may succeed in establishing the possibility and limits of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, law and science. The idea of reason being its own judge is not only pivotal to a proper understanding of Kant's philosophy, but can also shed light on the burgeoning fields of meta-philosophy and philosophical methodology. The 2019 Kant Congress put special emphasis on Kant's methodology, his account of conceptual critique, and the relevance of his ideas to current issues in especially political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Additional sections discussed a wide range of topics in Kant's philosophy. The Proceedings will provide anyone who is interested in exploring the variety of present-day work on Kant and Kantian themes with a wealth of fruitful inspiration.

In der Reihe werden herausragende monographische Untersuchungen und Sammelbande zu allen Aspekten der Philosophie Kants veroeffentlicht, ebenso zum systematischen Verhaltnis seiner Philosophie zu anderen philosophischen Ansatzen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Veroeffentlicht werden Studien, die einen innovativen Charakter haben und ausdruckliche Desiderate der Forschung erfullen. Die Publikationen reprasentieren damit den aktuellsten Stand der Forschung.