Gerhold K. Becker

Gerhold K. Becker

Gerhold K. Becker (born July 22, 1943 in Bad Salzschlirf , Hesse) is a German philosopher .

Life

Gerhold K. Becker grew up as the eldest son of the violinist Josef Becker and his wife Agnes, b. Goldbach, in Bad Salzschlirf . After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Fulda , he studied philosophy and theology at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg and Munich , a. a. with Hans-Georg Gadamer , Dieter Henrich , Hermann Krings , Robert Spaemann , Michael Theunissen , Ernst Tugendhat and Heinrich Fries , Alois Grillmeier , Wolfhart Pannenberg , Karl Rahner , Trutz Rendtorff and Eugen Biser , for whom he started a thesis on the thinking of Ernst Troeltsch summa cum laude received his doctorate. From 1975 to 1986 Becker taught as a research assistant and later as an academic adviser at the Institute for Christian Worldview and Philosophy of Religion at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During this time he met his future wife, the musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn . In January 1986, Becker accepted a position at the Department of Religion and Philosophy at what would later become the Hong Kong Baptist University . In 1987 his wife also came to Hong Kong and taught at Hong Kong University for six years . Becker founded Hong Kong's first center for applied ethics in 1991 , which he then headed for ten years. In 1992 he was elected as a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1996 the Hong Kong government appointed him to the Reproductive Medicine Council ; From 2000 to 2004 he headed its ethics committee. Since 2004 he has been teaching as a "permanent visiting professor" at the Graduate School of Philosophy at Assumption University in Bangkok .

Career history

• 1975–1980 Research Assistant, Institute for Christian World View and Philosophy of Religion, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
• 1980–1986 Academic Council, Institute for Christian Weltanschauung and Philosophy of Religion, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
• 1986–1988 Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist College
• 1988–1991 Principal Lecturer, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist College
• 1991–2000 Director, Center for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University
• 1991–1995 Professor, Personal Chair of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist College [since January 1994: Hong Kong Baptist University]
• 1995–2004 Chair Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University
• since 2004 Regular Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Philosophy and Religion, Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok

Book publications (selection)

• Theology in the Present. Tendencies and perspectives . Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-7917-0557-1 .
• Modern subjectivity and religiosity. The religious-philosophical significance of the emergence and essence of the modern age in Ernst Troeltsch's thinking . Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1982, ISBN 3-7917-0734-5 .
• The original symbols in the religions . Styria Verlag, Graz 1987, ISBN 3-222-11732-2 .
• Ethics in Business and Society: Chinese and Western Perspectives (Eds.). Springer Verlag, Berlin etc. 1996, ISBN 3-540-60773-0 .
• Changing Nature's Course: The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnology (Ed. With James P. Buchanan). Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 1996, ISBN 962-209-403-1 - Google
• Bioethics and Personhood . [ The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal , Volume 9/4, 1999], ISSN  1054-6863 .
• The Moral Status of Persons: Perspectives on Bioethics (Ed.). Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 2000, ISBN 978-90-420-1201-1 - Google

Articles (selection, since 2002)

• The Ethics of Prenatal Screening and the Search for Global Bioethics . In: Julia Tao Lai Po-wah (Ed.): Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im) Possibility of Global Bioethics . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002, pp. 105-130.
• Moral Education in China and the 'West ". Ideals and Reality in Cross-cultural Perspective . In: Karl-Heinz Pohl and Anselm W. Müller (Eds.): Chinese Ethics in a Global Context: Moral Bases of Contemporary Societies . Sinica Leidensia LVI, Brill, Leiden, October 2002, pp. 245-278.
• Ethical Issues in the Modernization of China . [Polish translation: Etyczne problemy moderniyacji Chin. In: Karin Tomala (ed.): China: Social and Political Development at the Threshold of the 21st Century ], [Chiny: Rozwoj Spoleczenstwa i Panstwa na przelomie XX i XXI wieku]. Trio Publishers, Warsaw 2003, pp. 49-94.
• Chinese Ethics and Human Cloning: A View from Hong Kong. In: Heiner Roetz (Ed.): Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics. The Example of Human Cloning . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2006, pp. 107-139.
• Divided Loyalties: The Moral Basis of Peace in a Multicultural World of Conflict and Humiliation. In: Imtiyaz Yusuf and Lars Peter Schmidt (eds.): Understanding Conflict and Approaching Peace in Southern Thailand . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bangkok 2006, pp. 240–280.
• Normative Relations: East Asian Perspectives on Biomedicine and Bioethic . In: Marcus Düwell (Ed.): Life Nature Contingency . Dordrecht: Kluwer / Springer 2008, 273–288.
• From the long farewell to Homo Oeconomicus. The deficient model of neoliberal economy and the ethics of respect. In: Gospel and Culture. Festschrift Michael Sievernich Ed. Mariano Delgado and Hans Waldenfels, Friborg / Stuttgart: Academic Press / Kohlhammer Verlag, 2010, pp. 299-314. ISBN 978-3170212404

Festschrift

• Responsibility and Commitment. Eighteen Essays in Honor of Gerhold K. Becker . Edited by Tze-wan Kwan. Waldkirch: Edition Gorz 2008. ISBN 978-3-938095-10-2 - Google

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhold K. Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Center for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong