Bernward chant

Bernward Gesang (born July 13, 1968 in Arnsberg ) is a German philosopher , university professor and non-fiction author.

Singing studied at the Universities of Bonn and Münster . In 1993 he graduated with a master's from 1994, he was at Münster University doctorate . From 1997 to 1999 he was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation and a lecturer in Münster. In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf , where he became a private lecturer .

After teaching assignments and substitute professorships in Zurich , Konstanz , Essen and Basel , he became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf in 2006 . In 2009 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy with a focus on business ethics at the University of Mannheim .

Singing asks: How can our world become sustainable? What ethics can be used to justify this goal and certain ways to get there? In this context, he deals with economic and climate ethics and their anchoring in normative ethics. Many ideas are tapped for advantages and disadvantages, including: "Global Emissions Trading"; "Reform of Democracy / Advocates for Future Generations", "Consumption for a Better World", "Social Investments". This is reflected on the ethical level in topics such as: " Theory of democracy", "Problems of collective action", " Research on consequentialism " and "Consensus between types of ethics".

Singing considers it important to "interpret" scientific findings in everyday language. He therefore writes for important major newspapers (SZ, "Die Zeit", taz, FR, ...) and is also active as a non-fiction author, so he wrote the ethical introduction "Can I do this or do I even have to?".

Publications

• Truth Criteria in Critical Rationalism , Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-5183-802-6 (dissertation, University of Münster, 1994).
• Accused: Gott , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-89308-262-X .
• Critique of particularism , Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-89785-091-5 (habilitation thesis, University of Düsseldorf, 1999).
• Stocks or Apocalypse? Ways out of the global ecological crisis , Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-89785-181-4 .
• A defense of utilitarianism , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018276-X .
• Perfection of the human being , Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019560-6 .
• Climate ethics , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29598-4 .
• Can democracy be sustainable? , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04894-5 .
• Business ethics and human rights , Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4562-7 .
• Can I or do I even have to? , Munich: Piper, 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-31058-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernward Gesang in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernward Gesang on the website of the University of Mannheim