Friedemann Buddensiek

Friedemann Buddensiek (* 1967 in Wolfsburg ) is a German philosopher .

After graduating from high school, Buddensiek first studied church music from 1986 to 1987 at the church music school in Esslingen / Neckar. From 1989 to 1994 he then studied philosophy , modern and ancient history as well as Slavic studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 1997 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on “'Virtue is a tool of the intellect': investigation into the conception of eudaimonia in Aristotle's Eudemian ethics” . Buddensiek then worked at the Institute for Philosophy there, first as a staff member, and from 1999 as an assistant. After his habilitation in 2004 (subject: “The unity of the individual: a study on the ontology of individual things” ), he moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where from 2006 to 2007 he was a substitute professor for ancient philosophy. Since the winter semester 2007, Buddensiek has been Professor (W3) for ancient philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , succeeding Wolfgang Detel .

Buddensiek's work focuses on ancient philosophy in general, Hellenism, classical metaphysics , the philosophy of the mind and analytical philosophy . The majority of his publications refer to Aristotle .

Web links

• Homepage of Buddensiek on the website of the Goethe University