Hans Peter Balmer

Hans Peter Balmer (born April 12, 1945 in Hergiswil NW ) is a German-Swiss philosopher .

Live and act

Balmer grew up in Lucerne and Sursee . He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Tübingen . He was in 1972 at the University of Tuebingen Karl Ulmer and Joseph Möller with a thesis on Nietzsche Dr. phil. PhD. He was with an investigation into at the University of Augsburg The European moralist habilitation . From 1979 to 2010 he taught philosophy at the University of Augsburg and at times at the Munich School of Politics .

In retirement he holds philosophical courses at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Center for Senior Studies and at the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences in Munich .

In teaching and research, Balmer deals with practical philosophy and in particular with European moral studies . The seminar events are occasionally based on significant lyrical texts such as Hölderlin's late hymns , Goethe's West-Eastern Divan , and Rilke's Duinese elegies . At the center of thought are anthropological, ethical, aesthetic, hermeneutic and religious-philosophical questions.

During his studies, Hans Peter Balmer rehearsed and performed sacred music as the director of a university choir, such as Haydn's Creation and Verdi's Requiem. He has also published some of his own aphoristic texts.

Publications

Books | Monographs

• Freedom instead of teleology. A basic idea from Nietzsche . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1977. (Symposium, 55)
• Philosophy of human things. European moral studies. Francke, Bern / Munich 1981.
• Montaigne and the Art of Questioning. Outlines of the essays. Francke, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8261-0 .
• Philosophical aesthetics. An invitation. Francke, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7720-8315-0 . (Korean Edition / Korean Language edition: Mijin Publisher, Seoul 2014, ISBN 978-89-408-0474-2 )
• Modern Socracy. Michel de Montaigne's essayistic philosophizing . Monsenstein & Vannerdat, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-95925-034-4 .
• What the divine name stands for. Religious philosophical experiments . readbox unipress, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-95925-040-5 .
• Figures of finality. To the teleological thinking of philosophy . readbox unipress, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-95925-053-5 .
• Condicio humana or what it means to be human. Moralistic Perspectives on Practical Philosophy . readbox unipress, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-95925-067-2 .
• Understand, communicate, acknowledge. An attempt at the linguistic quality of existence . readbox unipress, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-95925-090-0 .
• It appears. Hermeneutic Perspectives on Speculative Mysticism . readbox unipress, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-95925-104-4 .
• Give senses to think. Aesthetic experience in modern philosophy . readbox unipress, Münster 2019. ISBN 978-3-95925-113-6 .

Article | Contributions

• Productivity and receptivity. In: H. Kohlenberger, W. Lütterfelds (ed.): Of the necessity of philosophy in the present. Festschrift for Karl Ulmer on his 60th birthday. Vienna / Munich 1976, pp. 77-101.
• Philosophical Anthropology and Political Economy . In: Apophoreta for Uvo Hölscher on his 60th birthday , ed. A. Patzer, Bonn 1975, 6-20.
• Liberation from Destructiveness? In: Politische Studien 27 (1976) 355-369. Also in: A. Reif (ed.): Erich Fromm, materials for his work. Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1978, pp. 109–124.
• Become brothers out of knowledge '? Lessing and the problem of human development and reconciliation . In: Civitas 35 (1979) 29-38.
• Metaphysics and anthropology. Interpretations of Aristotle's writing Lambda. In: Freiburg journal for philosophy and theology. 28, 1981, pp. 78-94.
• Practice of freedom . In: H. Gauly et al. (Ed.): In conversation: the human being: an interdisciplinary dialogue ; Joseph Möller on his 65th birthday . Düsseldorf 1981, pp. 295-307.
• Nietzsche's development of European moral studies . In: Perspectives of Philosophy. Neues Jahrbuch 7 (1981) pp. 9-24.
• Aliveness and conditionality. The moralistic factor in practical philosophy. In: Freiburg journal for philosophy and theology. No. 32 1985, pp. 491-507.
• Mythical-mystical world of thought . In: A. Halder u. a. (Ed.), Traces of Redemption. Religious depth dimensions of modern thinking , Düsseldorf 1986, 152–167.
• Articulation of needs, Schopenhauer's antitheistic counter-calculation In: A. Halder u. a. (Ed.): In Search of the Hidden God . Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 215-236.
• Increased practice, new life, Nietzsche's musical world of becoming. In: A. Halder u. a. (Ed.): In Search of the Hidden God . Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 190-214.
• The Existence of God, Anglo-Saxon Philosophers Pros and Cons, An Introduction. In: Salzburg Yearbook for Philosophy. XXXIV, 1989, pp. 7-15.
• Metaphysics overcome? On the importance of Nietzsche in contemporary philosophy . In: E. Coreth (Ed.): Metaphysics in unmetaphysical time . Düsseldorf 1989, pp. 27-44.
• Wisdom of the Inconsolable Comforters, The moralistic discourse . In: A. Assmann (Ed.): Wisdom. Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7705-2655-4 , pp. 525-536.
• Memory of philosophy. In: P. Rück (Ed.): Borderline experiences, Swiss scientists, journalists and artists in Germany. Marburg an der Lahn 1991, ISBN 3-925347-16-X , pp. 301-309.
• Camus and Chamfort. On the ethos of the moralists . In: HR Schlette, FJ Klehr (ed.): Helenas Exil, Albert Camus as an attorney for Greek in modern times, Stuttgart 1991, 121–161.
• Moral ethics . In: A. Pieper (Ed.): History of the newer ethics. Volume 1, Tübingen / Basel 1992, ISBN 3-925347-16-X , pp. 1-25.
• Condicio humana . In: G. Ueding (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Volume 2, Tübingen / Darmstadt 1994, Sp. 337-348.
• Plessner, Helmuth . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Herzberg, 1994, Vol. 7, Col. 735-739.
• The meaning of the disease? Reflections on Camus' novel 'Die Pest' . In: Hp. Heinz / H. Mendl (Ed.): AIDS, A Challenge for Theology, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-8963-9065-1 pp. 96-105.
• Science, reflections on its organization and evaluation. In: Theo Stammen (Ed.): One, two or many cultures of knowledge? Würzburg 2000, pp. 49-66.
• Understand principle? Problems of Hermeneutics. In: Hans Vilmar Geppert, Hubert Zapf: Theories of Literature. Volume I: Basics and Perspectives. Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-7720-8012-X , pp. 29-49.
• Science in context. Reflections on the forms of knowledge. In: Bernadette Malinowski (ed.): In conversation: Problems and perspectives of the humanities . Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-221-2 , pp. 13–32.
• Aphorism, essay writing, moralistic. In: Hans Vilmar Geppert, Hubert Zapf: Theories of Literature, Basics and Perspectives. Volume III, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7720-8222-1 , pp. 191-211.
• Farce, endgame, magic flute. In: Mathias Mayer: Modell Zauberflöte: The credit of the possible. Cultural-historical reflections of invented truths. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-13533-5 , pp. 115-134.
• Condicio humana - Conditio humana. Lemma. Munich 2020 .

Aphoristic texts

• Agreeing, clashing against one another. In: 40 years of the KHG Choir Tübingen. Festschrift. Tübingen 2003, pp. 24-29.
• To priceless peace. In: F. Sedlmeier, Th. Hausmanninger (Ed.): Inquire pacem. Contributions to a theology of peace. Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-936484-43-0 , pp. 402-420.
• Words sentences signs. In: Werner Frick, Fabian Lampart, Bernadette Malinowski: Literature in the game of signs. Festschrift for Hans Vilmar Geppert. Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8161-4 , pp. 1-24.
• In the approximate, inevitably. In: individuals. (= Zeno. Issue 30). Duisburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940251-69-5 , pp. 161-163.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emeritus. University of Augsburg, accessed on August 30, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Profile page at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Peter Balmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• aphorismus.net: “Art is long, life is short.” Approaches to aphoristic hermeneutics
• Professor Dr. Hans Peter Balmer at the Catholic Theological Faculty Augsburg ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Short biography of Hans Peter Balmer