Martin Rhonheimer

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Martin Rhonheimer (* 1950 in Zurich ) is a Swiss philosopher and since 1990 professor of ethics and political philosophy at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome . He is a priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei and founding president of the Austrian Institute of Economics and Social Philosophy in Vienna , where he lives today.

Life

Rhonheimer was born in 1950 and comes from a predominantly Jewish family. At the age of seven he converted to the Catholic faith with his brother two years older.

After elementary school he completed the humanistic grammar school in the Benedictine College Sarnen, after which he studied history, philosophy and political science in Zurich and theology in Rome. 1977 Doctorate to Dr. phil. with Hermann Lübbe at the University of Zurich with the thesis "Politicization and withdrawal of legitimacy. Totalitarian criticism of parliamentary democracy in Germany". From 1972 to 1978 he was assistant to Hermann Lübbe at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Zurich, 1981/82 research assistant to Otfried Höffe at the University of Freiburg / Switzerland , research fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , Cologne, as such from 1982 collaboration with Wolfgang Kluxen , University of Bonn (Habilitation project: "Practical Reason and Reasonability of Practice", published in 1994).

In 1974 Rhonheimer joined Opus Dei. In 1983 he was founded in Rome by Pope John Paul II . ordained a priest (incardination in the personal prelature Opus Dei). Since 1990 professor of ethics and political philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome (since 2015 without teaching commitment).

He is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as co-founder (2014) and since 2015 President of the Austrian Institute of Economics and Social Philosophy based in Vienna, where he currently lives.

Rhonheimer published in specialist journals and anthologies, primarily in the field of moral philosophy and political philosophy as well as business ethics and social philosophy , as well as on questions of sexual ethics and bioethics, and defended the modern theory of evolution in his book "Homo sapiens: the crown of creation" (2016) versus creationism and intelligent design. In 2012 he published the book "Christianity and Secular State", with a foreword by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, in which he advocates the thesis that the liberal, secular state of modernity has grown on the basis of a civilization shaped by Christianity and is based only on its premises the divorce from politics and religion. Many of his books have been translated into different languages, others have only been published in English and Italian.

Rhonheimer publishes in magazines and newspapers such as Herder Korrespondenz , Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift Communio Vatican Magazin , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung , Imago Hominis and gave interviews such as for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Wirtschaftswoche online or Die Tagespost . He warns against the excessive elevation of the state in the form of the totalitarian “deification of the state” in the 20th century as well as against an “ Islamization ” of society that is incompatible with Western legal understanding .

He is a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society , the Ludwig Erhard Foundation and co-founder of the Lord Acton group and describes himself in the tradition of Lord Acton as a "Catholic Liberal".

Fonts

  • Politicization and withdrawal of legitimacy. Totalitarian criticism of parliamentary democracy in Germany . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-495-47406-4 (= Diss. Phil. Zurich 1977)
  • Family and self-actualization. Alternatives to emancipation . Science and politics, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-8046-8558-7
  • Nature as the basis of morality. The personal structure of the natural law in Thomas Aquinas . An examination of autonomous and teleological ethics . Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1987, ISBN 3-7022-1602-2
  • Practical reason and reasonableness of practice. Action theory in Thomas Aquinas in its emergence from the problem context of Aristotelian ethics . Academy, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002536-0
  • La prospettiva della morale. Fondamenti dell'etica filosofica . Armando, Rome 1994, ISBN 88-7144-488-4
    • Expanded and updated edition as: The Perspective of Morals. Philosophical foundations of virtue ethics . Akademie, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003629-X : English edition: The Perspective of Morality: Philosophical Foundations of Thomistic Virtue Ethics, Washington DC, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8132-1799-4 .
  • Absolute rule of the born? Anatomy and criticism of the argumentation of Norbert Hoerster's "Abortion in the secular state" . IMABE, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85297-002-4
  • La filosofia politica di Thomas Hobbes . Coerenza e contraddizioni di un paradigma . Armando, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-7144-681-X
  • Etica della procreazione. Contraccezione - Fecondazione artificiale - Aborto . Edizioni PUL-Mursia, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-465-0062-8
  • Abortion and Life Protection. The prohibition of killing and the right to life in political and medical ethics . Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70114-2
  • The transformation of the world. On the topicality of Opus Dei . Adamas, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-937626-04-2
  • The Perspective of the Acting Person: Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy, Washington DC 2008, ISBN 978-0-8132-1511-2 .
  • You are the light of the world. The Opus Dei - Explained to Young People . Adamas, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-937626-10-9 .
  • Christianity and the Secular State. History - present - future . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30603-7 .
  • The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching , Washington DC 2013, ISBN 978-0-8132-2009-3 .
  • Homo sapiens: the crown of creation. Challenges of the theory of evolution and the answer of philosophy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12075-7 , 286 pp.

German-language articles (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Institute of Economics and Social Philosophy. Retrieved on November 9, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Martin Rhonheimer: Why was the Church silent about the fight against extermination? ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Die Tagespost , March 22, 2003
  3. ↑ Martin Rhonheimer: Practical reason and reasonableness of practice, theory of action in Thomas Aquinas in its emergence from the problem context of Aristotelian ethics . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-002536-0 ( degruyter.com [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  4. ^ Austrian Institute of Economics and Social Philosophy. Accessed October 7, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ The work of capital: How wealth arises. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Communio magazine - Reading sample 2 of the archived issue 2/2017. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The “Hermeneutics of Reform” and freedom of religion ( Memento from January 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Vatican-Magazin, 3/2012, accessed on January 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Killing in the name of Allah's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 17, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2014
  9. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/jordan-peterson-er-denkt-scharf-und-differenziert-ld.1472539
  10. ↑ Martin Rhonheimer: Guest contribution: Which economy kills? ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  11. ^ Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Intelligent Design and the question of the creator Imago Hominis, 14 (1) / 2007, accessed on January 16, 2014
  12. ↑ Priest Martin Rhonheimer: "Mercy does not create prosperity" . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 7, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Malte Fischer: Capitalism criticism: Church and capitalism: The devilish K-word. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  14. ^ Antithesis to Christianity Die Tagespost, September 29, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2014
  15. ↑ Martin Rhonheimer: The Enlightenment does not fall from the sky. NZZ, International Edition, January 25, 2017, p. 22.
  16. ↑ Martin Rhonheimer: For the liberal, tolerance and indifference are two different things . January 15, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Rhonheimer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher, university professor and priest
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich