Nikolaus Knoepffler

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Nikolaus Knoepffler (born July 17, 1962 in Miltenberg ) is a German philosopher and theologian. He holds the Chair of Applied Ethics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and is President of the Global Applied Ethics Institute.

Life

Knoepffler completed training by Jesuits , acquired a license for theology in Rome and received his doctorate in philosophy (Rome), theology (Bern) and political science (Lüneburg). The Dr. phil. habil. in philosophy he acquired in Munich. In 2002 he was visiting professor at Georgetown University , Washington DC and in 2006 at the Uehiro Center of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford . From 1996 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 2000 to 2002 also deputy managing director. Since 2002 he has held the chair for applied ethics at the University of Jena and head of the ethics department in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FSV) and the interdisciplinary ethics center as well as president of the ethics committee of the FSV. He is the founder and president of the Global Applied Ethics Institute, which is primarily oriented towards business ethics, in cooperation with colleagues from Georgetown University, the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics and Zeijang University, a member of the Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research of the Federal Republic of Germany and a member of Bavarian bioethics - Commission and Vice President of the German Academy for Organ Transplantation . From 2006 to 2013 he was spokesman (from Jena) of the DFG graduate college on human dignity and human rights, then jointly responsible for the trilateral DFG project "Hearts of Flesh - not Stone" between Israel, Palestine and Germany, which is his colleague in the theological Ethics, initiated by Martin Leiner and headed the Jena Center for Reconsilation Studies within the framework of the JCRS.

Knoepffler's main research areas are the importance of human dignity for ethical conflicts, medical- ethical and business- ethical issues.

He has been married since 1996 and has two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • Research on human embryos. What is responsible Hirzel, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7776-0960-9 .
  • Human dignity in bioethics . Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-21455-0 .
  • Human biotechnology as a social challenge . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-495-48143-5 .
  • (Ed.) Introduction to applied ethics . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-495-48142-7 .
  • (Ed.) The new man? Enhancement and Genetics . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-495-48307-7 .
  • Applied ethics. A systematic guide . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3293-1 (= UTB 3293).
  • (Ed.) Facets of human dignity . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-495-48424-1 .
  • The beginning of the human person and bioethical areas of conflict. Inquiries to the teaching office . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-02251-7 .
  • '"Green genetic engineering and synthetic biology - no special cases" (together with S. Odparlik, J. Achatz, M. O'Malley). Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, ISBN 978-3-495-48558-3 .
  • '"Key terms of Immanuel Kant's philosophy. Transcendentality and human dignity". Utz, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8316-4329-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-protocol.de/nachrichten/id/3692/
  2. ↑ Global Applied Ethics Institute. Retrieved March 20, 2017 (American English).
  3. ^ RKI - members. In: www.rki.de. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Knoepffler, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, holder of the chair for applied ethics at the University of Jena
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Miltenberg