Ethics Prize from the Giordano Bruno Foundation

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The Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Foundation has been awarded since 2011 to people who, in the opinion of the Foundation, have made a contribution to the “development of positive alternatives in the sense of evolutionary humanism ”. It is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Award winners

In June 2011, the Ethics Prize was presented for the first time in the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main to the Italian philosopher Paola Cavalieri and the Australian philosopher Peter Singer for their commitment to the Great Ape Project (GAP). The GAP advocates that certain fundamental rights that are currently reserved for humans should also apply to the other members of the great ape family (chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans).

Singer and Cavalieri are in the tradition of Giordano Bruno , after whom the gbs is named, and are therefore “ideal prize winners”, according to the foundation spokesman Michael Schmidt-Salomon . Because Bruno too had “cast doubt on the prevailing opinion” and tried to show that “the majority opinion is not always the truest opinion”.

The awarding of the award to Singer met with criticism from the disability policy spokesman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Markus Kurth , the disability policy spokesperson for the federal government, Hubert Hüppe and Lebenshilfe .

Web links

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  1. ^ Website of the gbs: The Foundation's prices , accessed on February 22, 2013
  2. ^ Klaus Tanner: Ecclesiology - Sensible Interface of Empiricism and Theology . In: Nobody is an island: being human at the intersection of anthropology, theology and ethics . De Gruyter Verlag (2011), p. 525
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Are you the most dangerous man in the world? Interview with Peter Singer , accessed August 16, 2011
  4. ^ Website of the gbs: Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer receive "Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Foundation" , accessed on February 22, 2013
  5. ↑ Heise online : How to stop being silenced in Germany , June 10, 2011
  6. ↑ No room for Homicide philosopher in the German National Library . Press release of June 1, 2011 by the Federal Government Commissioner for the Issues of Disabled People on the occasion of the award of the Ethics Prize of the Giordano Bruno Foundation to Peter Singer
  7. ↑ Peter Nowak 2011: Humanist or killing philosopher? . telepolis
  8. ↑ Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe outraged by the choice of the winner. Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual disabilities e. V., June 3, 2011, archived from the original on January 31, 2012 ; accessed on January 31, 2012 .