Maximilian Forschner

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Maximilian Forschner (born April 19, 1943 in Reichling ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Maximilian Forschner studied Catholic theology from 1962 to 1967 at the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich , which was followed by a degree in philosophy, education and fundamental theology at the LMU until 1972. Forschner received his doctorate in philosophy in Munich in 1972 , and he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Erlangen in 1980 with an investigation into Stoic ethics, which is considered the "first comprehensive presentation of Stoic philosophy in German since Max Pohlenz " ( Woldemar Görler ). The subject of the work was based on a suggestion by Manfred Riedel . Forschner has been working on the Stoa until very recently. He took part in the Freiburg project stoicism in European philosophy, literature, art and politics. A cultural history from antiquity to modernity (2008). According to Forschner, the deficit of current Stoic research is the lack of awareness of the importance of Stoic theology. Forschner is one of the four authors of the Lexicon of Ethics published by Otfried Höffe . In bioethical debates, Forschner emphasized the danger of the loss of the moral dignity of humans through "the interplay of scientific-technical progress and consumption-intensive mass banal hedonism".

From 1982 to 1985, Forschner was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Osnabrück (Vechta Department). From 1985 to 2008 he held the chair for practical philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (which is one of the concordat chairs ). Forschner rejected calls for chairs at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Forschner retired in 2008.

Forschner is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria , editor of the Symposion series of philosophical publications, member of the editorial board of the journal for philosophical research and a member of the scientific advisory board of the SAPERE series . In 2010, Forschner was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Münster.

In 2000 it was reported in the media that Forschner had taken over some pages of the first chapter of his book "On the Happiness of Man" from the 1988 book "Aristotle's Ethics" by the English philosopher James O. Urmson, citing the source several times, however no individual proofs given. Urmson himself raised no objections to the takeover. The “Standing Commission to Investigate Accusations of Scientific Misconduct” at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, which then examined the case, came to the conclusion that “the person concerned was not plagiarized, but rather a less serious violation of copyright and a violation of the principles of scientific publishing to be blamed ". The rector of the university, Prof. Gotthard Jasper , then officially disapproved of Forschner's behavior.

Works (selection)

  • Law and freedom. On the problem of autonomy in Immanuel Kant (1974);
  • Rousseau (series: Kolleg Philosophie). Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1977. ISBN 3-495-47349-1 .
  • Stoa and Cicero on War and Peace (1988);
  • Man and Society (1989);
  • On human happiness (1993, 2nd edition 1994);
  • The stoic ethics (1981, 2nd edition 1995);
  • About acting in harmony with nature (1998);
  • From Hellenism to Late Antiquity (co-author, 2000)
  • Dion of Prusa ; Human Community and Divine Order: The Borysthenes Speech (co-author; 2003)
  • Thomas Aquinas . Beck: Munich 2006. ISBN 3-406-52840-6 .
  • Lexicon of Ethics (Ed. Otfried Höffe , 1977, 7th edition 2008)
  • Plato , Euthyphron (2013);
  • The philosophy of the stoa. Logic, Physics and Ethics, WBG, 2018.
  • with Norbert Fischer Ed .: The question of God in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-451-28507-3
  • with Ludger Honnefelder since 1995 publisher of the philosophical series "Symposion" by Verlag Karl Alber , Freiburg i. Br. / Munich

Individual evidence

  1. Deutsches Ärzteblatt, April 20, 2001, p. 1042
  2. a b c Investigation report of the permanent commission to investigate allegations of scientific misconduct of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  3. ^ "On the happiness of man", pp. 3, 21, 151
  4. Ralf Grötker: Ethics of copying. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 20, 2000, accessed June 8, 2015 .
  5. Press release from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg http://www.presse.uni-erlangen.de/Aktuelles/Aktuelles_2000/Nachrichten_2000/ForschnerPK.html
  6. UNIKURIER current. No. 33 / October 2000, p. 3 ( http://www.presse.uni-erlangen.de/Aktuelles/UKaktuell/uka33.pdf )

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