Nikolaus Knoepffler

Knoepffler Nicholas ( born July 17, 1962 in Miltenberg ) is a German philosopher and holder of the Chair for Applied Ethics at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena.

Life

He was trained by Jesuits acquired the license for theology in Rome and was in philosophy ( Rome) and political science ( Lüneburg) doctorate. The Dr. phil. hab. in philosophy he acquired in Munich. In 2002 he was a visiting professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and in 2006 at the Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is at the University of Jena since 2002 and head of the Chair of Applied Ethics Ethics in the Sciences and the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the überfakultären ethics center. He is the founder and president of the predominantly economic ethics aligned Applied Global Ethics Network and a member of the Bavarian Bioethics Commission and Vice President of the German Academy for organ transplantation.

He has been a speaker at the Science Forum 2007, the Süddeutsche Zeitung on " with Kant on the stock market " and is currently conducting research on " Values ​​and management ". He is patron of the Ethics Prize for sustainability, which is awarded in two yearly intervals by the Ethics Bank, a subsidiary of Volksbank Eisenberg, Thuringia.

He has been married since 1996 and has two daughters.

Writings (selection )

  • Research on human embryos. What is irresponsible? Hirzel, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7776-0960-9.
  • Human dignity in bioethics. Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-21455-0.
  • Human biotechnology as a social challenge. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-495-48143-5.
  • (Ed.) Introduction to Applied Ethics. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-495-48142-7.
  • (Ed.) The New Man? Enhancement and Genetics. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-495-48307-7.
  • Applied Ethics. A systematic guide. Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3293-1 ( UTB = 3293 ).
  • (Ed.) facets of human dignity. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-495-48424-1.
  • The beginning of the human person and bioethics areas of conflict. Requests to the Magisterium. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-02251-7.
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