Kurt Baier

Kurt Erich Maria Baier ( born January 26, 1917 in Vienna, † 23 October 2010) was an Austrian moral philosopher.

Baier works in various fields of practical philosophy, including theoretical and applied ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law.

Baier studied law in Vienna. He left the city in 1938 after Hitler's invasion in order first, then to live in London in Australia. Baier studied philosophy in Melbourne (BA 1944, MA 1947) and Oxford ( DPhil 1952) and then taught in Melbourne, the Australian National University in Canberra and from 1962 until his retirement in 1995 at the University of Pittsburgh.

Works

  • The Moral Point of View: A Rational Basis of Ethics. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1958. Abridged and revised edition, Random House, New York 1965. ISBN 978-0-394-30651-3
  • Values ​​and the Future: Impact of Technological Change on American Values ​​. Edited together with Nicholas Rescher. Free Press, New York 1969, ISBN 978-0-02-901170-6
  • Reason, Ethics, and Society: Themes from Kurt Baier, With His Responses. Edited by J. B. Schneewind, Open Court, Chicago, 1996. With a bibliography (up to 1995). ISBN 978-0-8126-9315-7
  • Problems of Life and Death: A Humanist Perspective ( Prometheus Lecture ), Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 1997, ISBN 978-1-57392-153-4
  • The Rational and the Moral Order: The Social Roots of Reason and Morality (Paul Carus Lectures ), Open Court, Chicago, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8126-9263-1.
  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
  • Austrian
  • Born 1917
  • Died in 2010
  • Man
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