Lothar Schäfer
Lothar Schäfer (born March 30, 1934 - † June 12, 2020 ) was a German philosopher .
From 1976 until his retirement he was professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg . His best known work is The Bacon Project . In it he judges the ideal of Francis Bacon critically and raises the general benefit as an economic preference over pure profit . He demanded that technical innovations serve the general benefit of the people.
Fonts
- Kant's Metaphysics of Nature . De Gruyter, Berlin 1966 (= Diss. Tübingen 1966).
- Experience and convention. On the theoretical concept of the empirical sciences . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-7728-0551-5 (problemata 34).
- Karl R. Popper . Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33215-3 (BsR 516).
- The Bacon Project. About the knowledge, use and protection of nature . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-58141-4 ; ibid. 1999, ISBN 3-518-29001-0 (stw 1401).
- The paradigm in the sky. Plato on nature and the state . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-495-48135-4 .
- Born in 1934. Memories of my village . Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-386-56893-4-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lothar Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice of Lothar Schäfer , FAZ from June 27, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1934 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 2020 |