Jean-Claude Wolf

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Jean-Claude Wolf

Jean-Claude Wolf (born December 14, 1953 ) is a professor of ethics and political philosophy . He has been teaching at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) since 1993 .

Wolf studied philosophy , German and literary criticism in Zurich , Bern and Heidelberg . His doctorate and habilitation took place at the University of Bern.

Wolf's areas of work include applied ethics , legal philosophy , utilitarianism and liberalism . He is considered an internationally renowned theorist of the animal rights movement . His book Animal Ethics , published in 1992 (reissued in 2005), is now one of the standard works in the discussion of ethical approaches in the human-animal relationship.

In recent years, Wolf has dealt with questions of evil and egoism in several books and articles. The key work for him was the book The Single and His Property by Max Stirner , whose doctrine of egoism is usually seen as an apology for destructive evil. Wolf comes to the opposite conclusion. He sees a "constructive egoism" in Stirner, which is directed as a "corrective against evil":

"I want to rehabilitate this egoism, which forms the hard core of self-respect, as it were."

- Jean-Claude Wolf : Evil.

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  1. Jean-Claude Wolf: Evil. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, p. 165, ISBN 978-3-11-025085-5 .