Bernhard Koch (philosopher)

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Bernhard Koch (* 1971 ) is a German philosopher and ethicist . He has been deputy director of the Institute for Theology and Peace in Hamburg since 2014 .

Life

Koch began his professional training in 1987 with an apprenticeship as a banker . He completed his education at the vocational school in Scheyern in order to study philosophy, logic and philosophy of science in Munich and Vienna after completing his civil service in 1993 . Prior to 2006 at the Munich School of Philosophy with a thesis on Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes doctorate , he taught and conducted research as a research assistant at the University of Education Weingarten . Since 2007 he has been working for the Institute for Theology and Peace in Hamburg as a project manager for ethical questions related to the legitimate use of force. In 2014 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute for Theology and Peace by military bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck . In the same year he was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). In January 2020 he received his habilitation from the Theological Faculty of the Albrecht Ludwig University of Freiburg.

From 2008 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and has been a lecturer in philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2011 . Another lecturer was added in the 2018/19 winter semester at the University of Hamburg .

Most recently, Bernhard Koch has emerged primarily through his work on the ethics of autonomous (weapon) systems.

Fonts

  • Philosophy as medicine for the soul. Investigations into Ciceros tusculanae disputationes. Dissertation. University of Philosophy, Munich 2006. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08951-7 .
  • It's up to us. For the socio-ethical weighing of armed drones and their normative implications. In: Fabian Forster, Sascha Wugrin, Leonard Wessendorff (eds.): The age of the Einsatzarmee. Challenges for Law and Ethics. Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3380-1 , pp. 37-54.
  • (Ed.): Protect the enemy? On a current controversy in the ethics of armed conflict. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0784-3 .
  • Targeted killing. Main features of the moral-philosophical debate in the present. In: Veronika Bock u. a .: Christian peace ethics facing the challenges of the 21st century. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1968-6 , pp. 191-206.
  • (Ed.) Chivalrous Combatants. The Meaning of Military Virtue Past and Present. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-3318-7 .

reception

His book, edited by him, Protect the enemy? Wilfried von Bredow addressed a current controversy in the ethics of armed conflict in the FAZ . He noted that the book deals with questions that are very specific, but unfortunately the authors' answers are not always specific. He therefore wants a “translation” into a generally understandable way . He therefore fears that the complicated technical language of the contributions will hinder their reception .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Koch on the website of the German Ethics Council
  2. ↑ a b c Bernhard Koch on the website of the Institute for Theology and Peace
  3. ↑ Dr. Bernhard Koch appointed deputy head of the Institute for Theology and Peace on militaerseelsorge.bundeswehr.de
  4. ↑ Documentary: Killer Robots: May Machines Kill , SWR / ARD 2017, on youtube.com
  5. ^ Wilfried von Bredow: Knotete Categories In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 31, 2014

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SURNAME Koch, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971