Otfried Höffe

Otfried Hoffe ( born September 12, 1943 in Leobschutz, Upper Silesia ) is a German philosopher who is known especially for his work on the ethics of Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.

Life

Höffe studied from 1964 to 1970 philosophy, history, theology and sociology in Münster, Tübingen, Saarbrücken and Munich. In his dissertation of 1971 ( Practical Philosophy - The model of Aristotle ), he showed that the concept of striving for the ethics of Aristotle is fundamental. In the years 1970 and 1971 he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. In 1974 he qualified as a professor in Munich with the work strategies of humanity. On the ethics of public decision-making processes. In 1976 he became a full professor of philosophy at the University of Duisburg. From 1978 to 1992 he was Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy and Director of the International Institute of Social Philosophy and Politics in Fribourg. At the same time he had from 1978 to 1990 a lectureship in philosophy of law at the Law Faculty of the University of Fribourg. With a lectureship in social ethics he taught from 1986 to 1998 at the ETH Zurich. From 1992 until his retirement in September 2011, he read as a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen, where he 1994, the Research Center for Political Philosophy founded and co-opted member of the law school was. In 2002 he received the Bavarian Prize for Literature (Karl Vossler price) for scientific illustrations of literary merit and has since also a regular guest professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of St. Gallen. He is the author of numerous books esp. on ethics, legal, political and economic philosophy, and Kant and Aristotle and is a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences ( Leopoldina ). His book on "Political Justice" has been translated into ten languages. Höffe has dealt intensively with John Rawls, whose theory of justice he made known in Germany in the 70s. On 1 June 2009 he was president of the National Ethics Committee in the area of ​​Switzerland in human medicine.

In July 2010, Hoffe said from his participation in the contracts awarded by UNESCO to the Islamic Republic of Iran, World Day of Philosophy, as had been feared, after the award of the Presidency to Haddad -Adel, the November planned in Tehran event to a " propaganda event " of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will.

He now lives in Tübingen.

Publications

Monographs

• Practical Philosophy, the model of Aristotle, Akademie-Verlag, 3rd ed Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004395-1.
• The state needs himself a people of devils: philos attempts to laws and governmental ethics, Reclam, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-15-008507-1.
• Political Justice: Foundations of a Critical Philosophy of Law and State, Suhrkamp, 4th edition 2003, ISBN 3-518-28400-2.
• Categorical principles of law: a counterpoint of modernity, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-518-28770-2.
• Morality as the price of modernity. , An attempt on science, technology and environment, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 4th edition 2000, ISBN 3-518-28646-3
• Reason and law: Building Blocks to a cross-cultural rights discourse, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3-518-28870-9.
• Is there an intercultural criminal law?: A philosophical experiment, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-518-28996-9.
• Democracy in the age of globalization, C. H. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3- 406-47599 -X.
• "Royal Races ": Kant's cosmopolitan theory of law and peace, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3- 518-29119 -X.
• Medicine without ethics? , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 3-518-12245-2.
• Justice. A philosophical introduction. C. H. Beck, 4th, revised edition, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-44768-6 -
• A Short History of Philosophy. C. H. Beck, Munich 2001, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57385-9. [ Review: Ursula Pia Jauch in NZZ, 31 January 2002 ]
• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The foundation of modern philosophy. C. H. Beck, 2 edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50919-3.
• Economic citizen, citizen, citizen of the world. Political Ethics in the age of globalization. C. H. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52208-4.
• Aristotle. Beck series thinker, 3rd revised edition, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54125-9.
• Immanuel Kant Beck series Thinker, 7th revised edition, Munich 2007, ISBN 9783-406-54762-1.
• Art of living and morality or virtue makes you happy?, C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55745-3.
• Is democracy sustainable?: About modern politics, C. H. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58717-7.
• Thomas Hobbes, C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2010; ISBN 978-3-406-60021-0.
• Ethics. An Introduction. CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64630-0.

Editorial Boards

• Aristotle lexicon, Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-45901-9
• Encyclopedia of Ethics, C. H. Beck, 7th edition Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56810-7
• Introduction to the utilitarian ethics: classical and contemporary texts, Francke ( UTB ), 4th edition Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1683-2
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. A cooperative comment, Klostermann, 3rd ed Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 978-3-465-03057-7
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason ( cooperative comment ), Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-05-003576-5
• Immanuel Kant, to eternal peace ( cooperative comment ), Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 3- 05-004084 -X
• John Rawls, A Theory of Justice ( cooperative comment ), Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004267-1
• Aristotle: The Main Works: A reading book, Francke, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7720-8314-3
• Immanuel Kant: Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone ( cooperative comment ), Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004682-2
• Immanuel Kant: writings on the philosophy of history ( cooperative comment ), Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004683-9

Essays

• The scientific animal studies: bioethical considerations. In: Swiss Medical Journal. Volume No. 63 1982, pp. 1001-1010.
• Subsidiarity as a social and political principle. In: (1997) Swiss Political Science Review 3 (3; PDF file, 195 kB).
• The clash of civilizations can fail. Modern civilization is multireligious compatible and contains a large general human power. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 14. October 2001.
• Justice as an exchange. In support of law and state, keynote address for the opening of the Law Faculty of the University of Lucerne, 22 October 2001 ( PDF file, 92 kB).
• Data protection and privacy in the age of globalization, friends gift Büllesbach 2002 ( PDF file, 68 kB).
• But how do you bear it? What can symbolize the headscarf. In: FAZ. 29 March 2004.
• Social justice. On the conditions of real freedom. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 4. June 2005.
• Inequality - injustice ( From Politics and History 37/2005 ) with essays by Otfried Hoffe, Paul Nolte, Rainer Forst ( PDF file, 2.97 MB).
• The usefulness of the useless. On the importance of philosophy in the age of economization. In: German Journal for Philosophy. 53 (2005), H. 5, pp. 667-678.
• Europe is not the same as the European Union. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 23 January 2006.
• Book and Author: philosophy of law and legal policy considerations, lecture on the 60th anniversary of the Academy Publishing on October 11, 2006 ( PDF file, 28 kB).
• The exaggerated thinking. Hannah Arendt's major work: a critical appraisal. In: The World. 14. October 2006.
• Intergenerational Justice ( From Politics and History 04 /2007) with essays by Otfried Hoffe, Peter Koller, Ulrich Steinvorth (PDF file; 1.33 MB).
• Kant is not Frankfurt. In: The Time. 1 November 2007.
• No one-way street. In: The World. 10. November 2007.
• Towards the cosmopolitan law. In: The World. 5. April 2008.
• VIRTUE MAKES HAPPY? SURVIVAL ART AND MORALITY, e-journal Philosophy of Psychology (PDF file; 130 kB).
• Everything was better. In: The World. 13. September 2008.
• Earn the managers what they deserve? A philosophical look at top wages, 22 April 2009.
• Help to death, aid in dying. In: FAZ. June 5, 2010, page 8