Detlef Horster

Detlef Horster (born September 12, 1942 in Krefeld ) is a German philosopher .

Life

1973 Detlef Horster passed his first state examination in law . After receiving his doctorate in 1976 as Dr. phil. In the subject of sociology , Detlef Horster took over the representation of the chair for ethics at the University of Utrecht (NL) in 1976/77 . In 1977 he founded the introductory series at Junius Verlag . From 1977 to 1981 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Hanover . In 1979 he completed his habilitation with the venia legendi for “Social Philosophy” and since 1981 has been Professor of Social Philosophy at the University of Hanover. Retired in 2007. Between 1981 and 2007 several guest professorships, guest lectureships and fellowships, among others in Port Elizabeth (South Africa), in Vienna and Zurich. In 1998 he founded the Hannah Arendt Days in Hanover. His focus is on ethics and law as well as the philosophical foundations of upbringing and education.

Horster developed his position in moral philosophy over decades and is today a representative of moral realism. For him, moral facts are entities like natural facts that are known through perception. Moral facts, on the other hand, are recognized through intuition . One can be as wrong about intuitions as about perceptions. Horster introduces the coherence criterion for testing. The intuition must be consistent with the other moral beliefs one has.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• On the relationship between philosophy and criticism of political economy. A contribution to the critique of institutional Marxism . SOAK-Verlag, Hannover 1976 (also dissertation, TU Hannover 1976).
• Ernst Bloch . An Introduction (Great Thinkers). 6th edition. Panorama, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-926642-52-1 (EA Hannover 1987).
• The subject-object relationship in German idealism and in Marxian philosophy . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-593-32461-X (plus habilitation thesis, TU Hannover 1979).
• Habermas as an introduction . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88506-630-0 (EA Hannover 1999).
• Kant as an introduction. 2nd Edition. Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-88506-811-7 (EA Hannover 1982).
• Alfred Adler as an introduction . SOAK-Verlag, Hanover 1984, ISBN 3-88209-060-X .
• The Socratic Conversation in Adult Education . University, Hannover 1986, ISBN 3-922874-28-2 .
• In the footsteps of Socrates. Change of place for philosophizing; Philosophizing with children . University, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-922874-54-1 .
• Rorty as an introduction . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-88506-868-0 .
• Jürgen Habermas (Metzler Collection; Volume 266). Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-10266-1 .
• Philosophizing with children . Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1992, ISBN 3-8100-0963-6 .
• Politics as a duty. Studies in Political Philosophy . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-28709-5 .
• The Socratic Conversation in Theory and Practice . Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-8100-1152-5 .
• “The apple doesn't fall far from the tree”. Morality and Law in Post-Christian Modernity . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-28809-1 .
• Niklas Luhmann . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52812-0 (EA Munich 1997).
• Post-Christian morality. A socio-philosophical justification . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88506-285-2 .
• Legal philosophy as an introduction . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-88506-357-3 .
• What should I do? Morality in the 21st Century . Reclam, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-20111-1 .
• Social philosophy . Basic knowledge of philosophy . Reclam, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-20118-9 .
• Jürgen Habermas and the Pope . Faith and reason, justice and charity in the secular state . Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-411-5 .
• Ethics . Basic knowledge of philosophy . Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020324-8 .

as editor

• Reason, ethics, politics . Hanover 1983.
• Feminine morality. A myth? Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• Niklas Luhmann: The moral of society . Frankfurt am Main 2009.
• Ethics in Disability Education. Human rights, human dignity, disability . Stuttgart 2012.
• Texts on ethics . Stuttgart 2012.
• Applied ethics . Stuttgart 2013.
• Niklas Luhmann. Social systems (series “interpret classics”). Berlin 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlef Horster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of Detlef Horster
• Detlef Horster: The Kantian "methodical solipsism" and the theories of Apel and Habermas. (PDF; 385 kB) In: Kant studies. Vol. 73 (4/1982), pp. 463-470.
• Detlef Horster: A reflection on Hegel's "Philosophy of Law". (PDF file; 34 kB) In: Der Staat. 31 vol. No. 4/1992, pp. 481-494.
• Detlef Horster: The relationship between norms and values. (PDF; 68 kB) In: Wilfried Härle and Bernhard Vogel (eds.), "On the right that was born with us." Current problem of natural law, Freiburg-Basel-Wien 2007, pp. 202–215.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine and Michael Hauskeller (eds.): "... what holds the world together at its core". 34 Paths to Philosophy, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1996, p. 126.
2. ↑ Franziska Martinsen (Ed.): Knowledge-Power-Opinion. Democracy and digitization. The 20th Hannah Arendt Days 2017, Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2018, pp. 101–103.