Markus Vogt (social ethicist)

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Markus Vogt (born October 26, 1962 in Freiburg i.Br. ) is a German Catholic theologian and professor of Christian social ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Markus Vogt studied theology and philosophy in Munich, Jerusalem and Lucerne. Markus Vogt did his doctorate under Wilhelm Korff on the subject of " Social Darwinism " in Munich. The dissertation was published in 1997 under the title “Social Darwinism. Theory of Science, Political and Theological-Ethical Aspects of the Theory of Evolution ”published by Herder-Verlag. He published his habilitation thesis (submitted to Hans Münk in Lucerne) in 2009 in Oekom-Verlag, Munich: “The principle of sustainability . A draft from theological-ethical perspective. "

From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the Federal Government's Advisory Council for Environmental Issues . Since 1995 he has been an advisor to the working group for ecological questions of Commission VI of the DBK ( German Bishops' Conference ). From 1998 to 2007 Vogt was professor for Christian social ethics at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern and head of the clearing office "Church and Environment" which he founded there .

Since April 2007 Vogt has been Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

For the summer semester 2011 and winter semester 2011/12, Vogt held a research professorship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he was the spokesman for the Working Group for Christian Social Ethics in German-speaking countries.

Vogt is married and has three children.

Act

Vogt's work focuses on the philosophical foundation of social principles as well as environmental and business ethics . He was instrumental in introducing Christian social ethics and Catholic social teaching to the topic of environmental protection and sustainability and in formulating the social principle of sustainability .

In 2017 he received Sugranyes Bickel from the jury chairman Reinhard Cardinal Marx and foundation president Domingo Sugranyes Bickel for his work, published in 2013, “The principle of sustainability. A draft from a theological-ethical perspective “the International Prize of the Pontifical Foundation Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice .

Memberships in scientific, political and church bodies (selection)

  • Spokesman for the working group of social ethicists in German-speaking countries
  • Senior Associate of the Rachel Carson Center for International Environmental History (since 2010)
  • Co-editor of Amos International magazine. Shaping society fairly (since 2009)
  • Member of the Munich Competence Center Ethics at LMU Munich (since 2007)
  • Diocesan Council of Munich and Freising
  • Justitia et Pax Germany (working group "World Economy and Agricultural Trade")
  • Head of the Environment Department at the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (1999–2008)
  • Working group “Economy and Church” at the Federation of Catholic Entrepreneurs
  • Working group “Science and Theology” of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria

Fonts (selection)

  • Principle of sustainability. A draft from a theological-ethical perspective (university publications on sustainability 39), Munich: oekom, 2009 [3. Edition Munich 2013].
  • Where does environmental ethics stand? Changing argumentation patterns (Contributions to social science sustainability research, Volume 5), Marburg: Metropolis 2013 (editor).
  • The moral of the energy transition. Changing risk perception using the example of nuclear energy, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2014 (editor).
  • Theology of Social Ethics (Quaestiones Disputatae), Freiburg: Herder, 2013 (editor).
  • Understanding of Nature in the Modern Age: Between Values ​​and Worldviews Political Ecology 99
  • Social market economy in the claim of the Aristotelian model of justice (Church and Society, edited by the Catholic Social Science Center Mönchengladbach; No. 391), JP Bachem Medien, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2585-9 .
  • Will Chernobyl and Fukushima become turning points for nuclear energy assessments? (May 2011, pdf, 13 pages; 151 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “International Prize of the“ Centesimus Annus ”Foundation goes to Markus Vogt” , Zenit , February 15, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ “Two Germans honored by the Papst Foundation” , Deutschlandfunk , May 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau