Society for Critical Philosophy Nuremberg
The Society for Critical Philosophy Nuremberg (GKPN) is a free-thinking - humanistic association .
She is primarily an editor of Enlightenment and Criticism. Journal for free thinking and humanistic philosophy , which has set itself the goal of defending free thinking and rational action through critical examination of violent-threatening, relativistic-nihilistic and dogmatic-fundamentalist positions. It also conducts local educational work through bi-weekly public lectures (mainly in Nuremberg ), some of which are also published on the Internet, and through an annual one-day symposium.
The GKPN sees itself in the tradition of ancient Socratic philosophy, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, as well as the modern philosophies of the Vienna Circle and Critical Rationalism .
Enlightenment and criticism
The journal Enlightenment and Criticism has been published three to four times a year since 1994 as a regular and at least once a year as a special issue on certain thinkers ( David Hume , Ludwig Feuerbach , Karl Marx , Friedrich Nietzsche , Peter Singer ) or current topics ( liberalism , Islamism , art of living , Atheism ).
The association is the publisher of the magazine, represented by its incumbent first chairman (since 2016 Frank Schulze; as main editor and now vice chairman Helmut Walther, who led the association from 2008 to 2016, succeeding the late founding chairman Georg Batz). Associate editors include a .:
- Hans Albert
- Dieter Birnbacher
- Lothar Fritze
- Horst Groschopp
- Horst Herrmann
- Eric Hilgendorf
- Norbert Hoerster
- Joachim Kahl
- Wulf Kellerwessel
- Ludger Lütkehaus
- Martin Morgenstern
- Hubertus Mynarek
- Hans-Joachim Niemann
- Armin Pfahl-Traughber
- Werner Raupp
- Dominik Riedo
- Thomas Riessinger
- Hans-Martin Sass
- Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (until 2015)
- Hermann Josef Schmidt
- Michael Schmidt-Salomon
- Peter Singer
- Anton Szanya
- Gerhard Vollmer
- Franz M. Wuketits
- Robert Zimmer