Henning Kößler
Henning Kößler (born April 27, 1926 in Braunschweig ; † March 14, 2014 in Nuremberg ) was a German philosopher and university professor .
Education path and career
Henning Kößler studied philosophy, German literature and Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen from 1946 to 1952. In 1954 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation Problem and Fate of Schiller's Idea of Freedom . From 1954 to 1964, he worked as a research assistant to Wilhelm Kamlah at the Philosophical Department of the University of Erlangen. After completing his habilitation with a thesis on the beginnings of the philosophy of history, Kößler was appointed associate professor in 1964 and full professor of philosophy at the Nuremberg University of Education in 1969 . After its incorporation into the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Kößler was dean of the educational science faculty from 1972 to 1976 and vice-president of the university from 1976 to 1982. From 1972 to 1976 he also served as Vice President of the West German Rectors' Conference . He retired in 1994.
Act
In research and teaching, Kößler dealt in particular with anthropological and linguistic-philosophical aspects and has published a number of publications on this. His last major work was on moral philosophy. He became known beyond his narrower field of work through a definition of education that has been cited in the discussion to this day (mostly shortened by the last half-sentence) :
"Education is the acquisition of a system of morally desirable attitudes through the mediation and acquisition of knowledge in such a way that people in the reference system of their historical-social world define their location by choosing, evaluating and taking position, acquiring a personality profile and gaining life and action orientation. Instead, one can also say that education creates identity and thus has in mind the connection that the topic of »education and identity« seeks to establish. "
In connection with his educational concept, Kößler emphasized the importance of the humanities and social sciences and, in a lecture given in 1983 to the West German Rectors' Conference, questioned the university educational institution that had supposedly mutated into a "training factory":
“She teaches sociolinguistics and communication theory , but what does she convey of the relaxed nature of Goethe's natural poetry ? She teaches the redshift of galaxies in the spectrum and the Hubble constant , but what about the challenge that modern cosmology poses for the self-image of humans? "
Works (selection)
- 250 years of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Edited by Henning Kößler (= Erlanger Research Special Series, Vol. 4). Erlangen 1993 ISBN 978-3-922135-91-3 .
- Self-bias - identity - education. Contributions to practical anthropology. With an afterword by Eckard König . Weinheim 1997 ISBN 978-3-89271-721-8 .
- Overcoming self-consciousness. A religious anthropology (= religious studies texts and studies, vol. 10). Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2001 ISBN 978-3-487-11420-0 .
- Morals and Ethics: The Moral Philosophy of an Unbelieving Christian (= Philosophical Texts and Studies, Vol. 102). Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2009 ISBN 978-3-487-14207-4 .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1982)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1994)
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning Kößler in the catalog of the German National Library .
- Entry Kößler, Henning † at Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar online.
- Art. On the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Henning Kößler at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft .
- Art. On the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Kößler at www.presse.uni-erlangen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to Henning Kößler's obituary notice at trauer.nordbayern.de .
- ^ Henning Kössler: Education and Identity. In the S. (Ed.) Identity. Five lectures (= Erlangen Research, Series B, Natural Sciences and Medicine, Vol. 20). Erlangen 1989 ISBN 978-3-922135-59-3 , pp. 51-65, p. 56.
- ↑ Quoted from With full steam in the dead end. Unemployed academics (V): Humanities and social scientists. In: Der Spiegel No. 24/1985, pp. 154–170, pp. 161 f. ( online as PDF ). Cf. also Eckard Lefèvre: Goethe as a pupil of ancient languages or On the meaning of tradition. In: Gymnasium 92 (1985), pp. 288-298, pp. 294 f. ( online at freidok.uni-freiburg.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kößler, Henning |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kössler, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2014 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |