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."
Fonts
- Prevention or Retaliation? Introduction to ethical criminal theories . Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 1992, ISBN 3-495-47726-8
- Animal ethics. New perspectives for people and animals . Paulus, Friborg 1992; 2nd, revised edition, Fischer, Erlangen 2005, ISBN 3-89131-415-9
- Freedom - Analysis and Evaluation. Passagen, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85165-164-2
- (with Peter Schaber) Analytical moral philosophy. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 1998, ISBN 3-495-47497-8 .
- Evil as an ethical category . Passagen, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85165-523-0
- Utilitarianism, Pragmatism and Collective Responsibility . Universitätsverlag, Friborg 1993, ISBN 3-7278-0903-5
- Eduard von Hartmann. A philosopher of the early days. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3227-6 .
- (Ed.): Eduard von Hartmann. Contemporary and opponent of Nietzsche. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3228-4 .
- (Ed.): Eduard von Hartmann: The emotional morality. Meiner, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7873-1817-9 .
- Egoism from below versus tutelage from above . Max Stirner Archive - edition unica, Leipzig 2007, 2., ext. Edition, 2008, ISBN 978-3-933287-61-8 .
- Selfishness and morality. Academic Press, Friborg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7278-1603-1
- The evil. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025085-5
- Traditional animal protection, radical animal protection and ethical meliorism . TIF - tier-im-fokus.ch, March 5, 2011.
- Post-Enlightenment Pantheism: Religion Between Heresy and Poetry . Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 2013, ISBN 978-3-495-48584-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Claude Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- J.-C. Wolf on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Theological Zoology (GbR)
- Curriculum vitae
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Claude Wolf: Evil. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, p. 165, ISBN 978-3-11-025085-5 .
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SURNAME | Wolf, Jean-Claude |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss philosopher, professor of ethics and political philosophy |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1953 |