Arno Plack

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Arno Plack (born March 18, 1930 in Landshut ; † July 9, 2012 in Heidelberg ) was a German philosopher and author.

Life

Arno Plack was the son of the schoolteacher Karl Plack and his wife Luise Plack, nee. Aicher from Landshut. His birthplace is at Seligenthaler Str. 60 in Landshut. Plack grew up in Landshut. There he attended elementary school and then for one year the secondary school in Weilheim . Back in Landshut, Arno Plack graduated from the local high school from 1941 to 1949, where he also passed his Abitur.

Plack studied philosophy and social sciences at the universities of Regensburg , Munich , Heidelberg and Saarbrücken . In 1962 he received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a study on Max Scheler's material ethics of values . Between 1954 and 1966 he worked as a freelancer, journalist and political commentator for several daily newspapers. In 2012 he died in his adopted home of Heidelberg.

Arno Plack was the author of widely read culturally and socially critical writings. His main work Die Gesellschaft und das Böse (1967) achieved a circulation of over 600,000 copies.

In his theory, Plack takes the approach that any norm-violating behavior is basically a misguided coping strategy and that crimes above all require a psychological interpretation.

Fonts

  • The position of love in the material ethics of values. A systematic discussion following Max Scheler , Nicolai Hartmann and Dietrich von Hildebrand . Dissertation Munich. Isar-Post, Landshut 1962.
  • Society and evil. A criticism of the prevailing morality. List, Munich 1967; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10609-5 .
  • Manipulation and human dignity. In: Theo Löbsack (Ed.): Too stupid for the future? Yesterday's people in tomorrow's world. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1971.
  • (Ed.): The myth of the aggression drive. List, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-471-66531-5 .
  • A plea for the abolition of criminal law. List, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-471-66524-2 .
  • Live without a lie. On the situation of the individual in society. DVA, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-421-01780-8 ; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-23816-1 .
  • Everyday philosophy. DVA, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01930-4 .
  • Does sexual liberation fail because of jealousy? In: Heinz Körner (Ed.): Jealousy. A reading book for adults. Körner, Fellbach 1979, ISBN 3-922028-01-2 .
  • How often is Hitler defeated? Erb, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-88458-042-6 ; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-23851-X .
  • It can't be true. Satires. Rauten, Riemerling 1986, ISBN 3-88804-016-7 .
  • Hitler's long shadow. With an “afterword to the national question”. Langen Müller, Munich 1993; 2. revised A. ibid. 2001, ISBN 3-7844-2443-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Plack, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2012
Place of death Heidelberg