Peter Steinberger: 4 books
The Problem with God
Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that when we talk about God, we are in fact talking about nothing...
Political Judgment
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Politics is the process by which communities collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment. Courses of action are chosen at least in part because they are somehow adjudged better than the alternatives, and this has given rise to a great deal of...
The Politics of Objectivity
An Essay on the Foundations of Political Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important...
by Lys Wiedmer-Zingg, Jürg Ramspeck, Emil Steinberger
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Die Geschichte vor, während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war auch in der neutralen Schweiz geprägt durch die Wirtschaftskrise, durch Militärdienst und Lebensmittelrationierungen, durch technische Entwicklungen und durch die Aufbruchstimmung nach dem Krieg. Für diejenigen, die sie erlebt haben,...