Dietrich Boehler

Dietrich Böhler (born January 5, 1942 in Berlin-Karlshorst ) is a German philosopher and representative of the "Berlin discourse pragmatics", who is, among other things, about the Socratic dialogic justification and a motivational expansion of the discourse ethics , which on the one hand Karl-Otto Apel , on the other hand was initiated by Jürgen Habermas .

Dietrich Böhler studied philosophy, theology, politics, German and sociology in Tübingen, Hamburg and Kiel. In 1970 he was at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with the text Metakritik der Marxsche ideology criticism. Prolegomena on a reflected criticism of ideology and 'theory-practice-mediation with Karl-Otto Apel doctorate. In 1981 he completed his habilitation at Saarland University with reconstructive pragmatics and hermeneutics . From 1969 to 1972 Böhler worked at the University of Saarland as an assistant at the chair of Karl-Otto Apels and since 1972 as an assistant professor. From 1975 he taught as a professor for social philosophy and philosophical foundations of education at theUniversity of Education Berlin . In 1980 and 1981 he led the " Funkkolleg practical philosophy / ethics" together with Apel . He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary research series Ethics and Business in Dialog . From 1981 to 2010 Böhler was Professor of Practical Philosophy, Ethics and Theory of Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin .

His first major work is his Reconstructive Pragmatics , which is intended to provide a discourse-theoretical "introduction both to the social and cultural sciences as practical sciences as well as to the fundamentals of philosophy, especially practical philosophy". The second major work bears the title Bindingness from the Discourse and, after a tradition-critical introduction to philosophy (history), offers a justification for reflective dialogue and its application to the problems of responsibility for the future, as they arise above all in the permanent ecological crisis.

Böhler is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Center Karl-Otto Apel as well as the board of the Hans Jonas -Zentrum eV , which he founded at the Free University. He is the initiator and co-editor of the “Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Hans Jonas”.

Publications (selection)

• Metacriticism of Marx's criticism of ideology. Prolegomenon to a reflected criticism of ideology and theory-practice mediation . Frankfurt a. M. 1971.
• Funkkolleg Practical Philosophy / Ethics: Dialogues . 2 vols. [Ed. together with K.-O. Apel and G. Kadelbach]. Frankfurt a. M. 1984.
• Funkkolleg Practical Philosophy / Ethics: Study Texts . 3 vols. [Ed. additionally with: K.-O. Apel and K. Rebel]. Weinheim / Basel 1984.
• Reconstructive pragmatics. From the philosophy of consciousness to the reflection of communication: new foundations of the practical sciences and philosophy . Frankfurt a. M. 1985.
• The pragmatic turn. Language game pragmatics or transcendental pragmatics? [Ed. together with: T. Nordenstam and G. Skirbekk]. Frankfurt a. M. 1986.
• Ethics for the future. In a discourse with Hans Jonas . Munich 1994.
• Orientation and responsibility. Encounters and arguments with Hans Jonas [ed. additionally with: JP Brune]. Wuerzburg 2004.
• Credibility of the discussion partner. An (economic) ethical thrust of the Berlin discourse pragmatics and discourse ethics. In: Bausch, Böhler, Rusche (eds.): Economy and ethics. Strategies Against Morality? Ethics and Economy in Dialogue Vol. 12. Münster 2004, pp. 105–148.
• Responsibility for the future from a global perspective. On the topicality of Hans Jonas and the ethics of discourse . Bad Homburg 2009.
• Commitment from the discourse. Thinking and acting after the pragmatic turn . Freiburg / Munich 2013. New edition as Alber study edition: Commitment from the discourse. Thinking and acting after the change to communicative ethics - orientation in the permanent ecological crisis . Freiburg / Munich 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Böhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Hans Jonas Center Berlin
• Metaphysics or a view of being, criticism or a return to the subject of knowledge, "communication" or a return to the basis of meaning in thinking (PDF; 1.2 MB). Discourse-related introduction to philosophy and its development, lecture in the winter semester 2006/2007
• Responsibility, understanding and action. Justification of ethics with a view to hermeneutics and pragmatics - Lecture SS 2007 at the FU Berlin (PDF; 762 kB)
• Dialogue and rationale between the three paradigms in the history of philosophy (PDF; 882 kB), lecture in the summer semester 2009
• Introduction to Practical Philosophy / Ethics (PDF; 1.4 MB), lecture winter semester 2009
• Horst Gronke: The practice of reflection. Dietrich Böhler's philosophical-political discourse (PDF; 293 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reconstructive Pragmatics , p. 19.
2. ↑ International Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Center Karl-Otto Apel ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.