Matthias Koßler

Matthias Koßler (* 1960 ) is a German philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and President of the Schopenhauer Society .

Life

From 1978 to 1988 Koßler studied philosophy, art history and church history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 1990 he received his doctorate with a comparative thesis on Hegel and Schopenhauer under Rudolf Malter . His habilitation took place in 1997 with the thesis "Empirical Ethics and Christian Morals". Before that, he had various positions and teaching positions at the Universities of Mainz and Koblenz-Landau . After substituting professorships at the universities in Mainz and Freiburg , he has been head of the Schopenhauer Research Center he founded since 2001 and since 2003 adjunct professor of philosophy and research assistant at the University of Mainz. Since 2000 he has been President of the Schopenhauer Society and since 2001 one of the main editors of the Schopenhauer Yearbook.

In addition to Schopenhauer, his research subjects include the philosophy of the Middle Ages and German idealism as well as ethics , epistemology and metaphysics .

Works

• Substantial knowledge and subjective action, presented in a comparison by Hegel and Schopenhauer . Frankfurt u. a. 1990.
• Empirical Ethics and Christian Morals. On the difference between a non-religious and a religious foundation of ethics using the example of the comparison of Schopenhauer with Augustine, Scholasticism and Luther . Würzburg 1999.
• From the perspective of philosophy. Contributions to the determination of a philosophical point of view in a time shaped by the natural sciences (ed. With R. Zecher). Hamburg 2002.
• The interpretation of the world. Jörg Salaquarda's writings on Schopenhauer's philosophy (ed. With B. Salaquarda and K. Broese). Wuerzburg 2007.
• Politics and society in the circle of Arthur Schopenhauer (as ed.). Wuerzburg 2008.
• Schopenhauer and the Philosophies of Asia (as ed.). Wiesbaden 2008.
• Schopenhauer and the Schopenhauer School (ed. With DM Fazio and F. Cirací). Wuerzburg 2008.

• Schopenhauer yearbook (as editor with D. Birnbacher and others). From vol. 82, 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Koßler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Mainz
• Homepage of the Schopenhauer Research Center