Erich Satter
Erich Satter (* 1935 in Lambrecht (Palatinate) ) is a German philosopher .
Life
After completing an apprenticeship in typesetting and graduating from the graphic arts college in Frankfurt am Main, Erich Satter was initially a senior executive in the middle management of a large multinational corporation: communication designer, head of the factory printing department, advice to purchasing and the cultural department. In addition, he volunteered in various functions within the free-spirited movement.
In 1993 he therefore decided to study philosophy , with the minor subjects religious studies , sociology , German and art history in Frankfurt and Graz. Diploma in 1998 and doctorate in 2001 at the Philosophical Institute of the Faculty of Humanities at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz.
In addition, lectures and then extensive publications. As a scientific author, he focuses on ethics , legal philosophy , ideological analysis and ideology criticism . His endeavors to make the synaesthesia of aesthetics and ethics transparent and to address the importance of aesthetics in a science of sensual knowledge should be emphasized . One of his approaches is to build a bridge between Denis Diderot's intuitive reflections on morality and Victor Kraft's rational justification of morality.
His son is the opera singer Wieland Satter .
Work areas
As a practical philosopher
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Focus on ethics
- Weltanschauung analysis and ideology criticism
- Ethics, aesthetics and religion in social-philosophical reflection
- Investigations into the development of a "pluralistic ethics"
- Ethics classes or LER versus denominational religious education
- Meta-ethical conception on the background of a secular state structure with humanistic goals
- Religious studies
- Legal Philosophy: Natural Law versus Positive Law
As an employee
- the free spirit campaign for humanistic culture
- of the AK "Religion-State-Weltanschauung" of the Humanist Union
As a member
- of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Free Academy
- of the umbrella organization of free ideological communities
- the Giordano Bruno Foundation
- of the alumni UNI Graz
- the Society for Critical Philosophy
As a speaker
- of the Working Group of Free Religious and Unitarian Communities in Hesse KöR (1989–1995)
As a headmaster
- of the free religious community Wiesbaden KöR (1977–1990)
As Vice President
- of the Free Academy eV (1979–1998)
- in the Federation of Free Religious Congregations in Germany KöR (1990–1995)
As president
- of the Free Religious Community of Hesse KöR (1989–1995)
As an honorary member
As an author
- Religion and ethics. ISBN 3-933037-23-9 .
- Possibility and limits of a pluralistic ethics - an analysis of social reality critical of religion and ideology as well as an attempt at a meta-ethical conception. ISBN 3-933037-27-1 .
- Awareness of values as reflected in religion and postmodernism - On the development of moral science and the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in the religious and ideological field of tension between modernity and postmodernism. ISBN 978-3-933037-59-6 .
- with Oliver Vollbrecht: Model of a rationally justifiable and ideology-free ethics. Lenz, Neustadt am Rübenberge 2008, ISBN 978-3-933037-41-1 .
- with Caesar-Erich Ullrich: History of the Free Religious Community Wiesbaden. Self-published, 2005, OCLC 179699017 .
As editor
- with Dieter Fauth: State and Church in the developing Europe - similarities and differences in national comparison. ISBN 3-923834-20-9 .
Contributions to edited volumes
- Volker Mueller: Ludwig Feuerbach - criticism of religion and freedom of the spirit. ISBN 3-933037-43-3 .
- Arnher E. Lenz, Volker Mueller: Wilhelm Ostwald: Monism and Energy : ISBN 978-3-933037-84-8 .
- Klaus Wellner: Nietzsche - his thinking and its development potential. ISBN 978-3-933037-90-9 .
- Anton Grabner-Haider, Kurt Weinke: Lines of thought of world culture. ISBN 3-8258-9081-3 .
- Carola Baumann, Nina Ulrich: Festschrift for the 80th birthday of the religious scholar Hubertus Mynarek Streiter in the ideological minefield. The article "Moral Science instead of Global Ethic" leads to a discussion with Hans Küng. ISBN 978-3-89924-247-8 .
- Dieter Fauth: The beginning and end of human life as a humanitarian challenge. ISBN 978-3-923834-30-3 .
- Volker Mueller: Denis Diderot and the connection between science and the arts. ISBN 978-3-923834-31-0 .
Erich Satter is also editor and co-author of the Lexicon of Free Thought .
Web links
- Website
- Literature by and about Erich Satter in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Satter, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lambrecht (Palatinate) |