Richard David Precht

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Richard David Precht (born December 8, 1964 in Solingen ) is a German philosopher and publicist . He is honorary professor of philosophy at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and honorary professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . Since the great success with Who am I - and if so, how many? his books on philosophical or socio-political topics became bestsellers. Precht has been the presenter of the Precht program of the same name since 2012 .

Origin, studies and professional activity

Richard David Precht grew up as the second of five children in Solingen-Mitte . Two siblings were Vietnamese adopted children who were taken in by his parents in 1969 and 1972 as a sign of protest against the Vietnam War . His father Hans-Jürgen Precht was an industrial designer at the Solingen-based company Krups and is now a pensioner working on building and maintaining a large private library. The mother was involved in the Terre des Hommes children's charity . The children grew up in a strongly left-wing milieu .

After graduating from high school in June 1984 at the Schwertstraße high school in Solingen , Precht did his community service as a community helper until September 1985. He then began studying philosophy , German and art history in Cologne and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In his dissertation, he examined the “sliding logic of the soul” in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities .

In 1997 Precht was Arthur F. Burns Fellow at the Chicago Tribune and in 1999 he received the Heinz Kühn Scholarship . In 2000/2001 he was a fellow at the European College of Journalism in Berlin. As an essayist , Precht writes for German newspapers and magazines. From 2002 to 2004 he was a columnist for the magazine Literaturen and from 2005 to 2008 he was a freelance presenter for the WDR radio broadcast Tageszeichen (formerly the Critical Diary ). Since 2013 Precht has been the patron of the Federal Association of Mentors - Die Leselernhelfer Hannover e. V. The initiative advocates the promotion of poor literacy students through committed citizens.

Works

Novels and autobiographies

In 1999 Precht wrote the detective educational novel Das Schiff im Noor with his brother Georg Jonathan . The book is set in 1985 and uses the Danish island of Lilleö (in reality: Ærø ) as a backdrop for a complicated web of motifs and analogy, such as that between theology and police work. On the surface, the book is a detective story about a sunken ship and a long-ago murder. At a deeper level, the book is about the order of things. Also the philosopher Michel Foucault is not missing, who appears in the guise of the restorer Mikkel Folket. The book was newly published in 2009 under the originally planned title Die Instrumente des Herr Jörgensen .

The novel Die Kosmonauten ( The Cosmonauts) from 2002 tells the love story and identity of Georg and Rosalie, who were in their late twenties, who met in Cologne and who moved in together shortly afterwards in the Berlin of the post-reunification period in 1990/91. At first they live the life of bohemians in Berlin-Mitte, from which Rosalie increasingly distances herself in the course of the plot. She changes her attitude, falls in love with another man and finally separates from Georg in order to lead a civil life. At the end of the novel, their mutual friend Leonhard dies in a tragic accident. In parallel, Precht tells the fate of Sergej Krikaljow , the last cosmonaut in the Soviet Union, in short episodes .

In the autobiographical book Lenin only came to Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution , published in 2005, Precht remembers his childhood in Solingen from a child's perspective, when he grew up in a family that was politically left-wing from the SPD in the 1970s. At the same time, he looks back on global political events and socio-political developments in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s and describes political attitudes, ideological attitudes and everyday details of the era. The book was filmed in 2007 with the support of WDR , SWR and the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation .

Writings on philosophy and politics

In his book Noahs Erbe , published in 1997, Precht deals with the ethical questions in the relationship between humans and animals and their social consequences. He advocates a changed approach to animals on the basis of an “ethics of not knowing”. The book has been fundamentally revised and was re-published in 2016 under the title: Animals think. On the rights of animals and the limits of man . In four parts - "The human animal", "The animal in the human eye", "A new animal ethics" and "What to do?" - Precht draws a bow from the biological-anthropological question to the history of culture, religion and philosophy Human-animal relationship towards a new philosophical justification of animal ethics as "sensitization". The last part of the book deals with practical questions such as the animal welfare law , hunting , vegetarian nutrition , animal experiments , zoological gardens and species protection .

In 2007 Precht wrote an easily understandable introduction to fundamental philosophical questions. Who am I, and if so, how many? was on the non-fiction bestseller list for many years. The plant was established in February 2008 to first place in the mirror - bestseller list taken and remained there until October 2012. Precht thus keeps the long-term record on the Spiegel bestseller list. According to the book report , it was the most successful German hardcover non-fiction book of 2008 and took third place in the bestsellers of the decade (2000–2010).

In his book Love: A Messy Feeling , published in 2009, Precht deals with the biology, evolution, and the social and psychological dimensions of love.

The art of not being an egoist appeared in 2010 . In the book Precht explores the question of “how people actually function morally.” To this end, the philosopher nowadays also has to “delve into the sketches of brain researchers, evolutionary biologists, behavioral economists and social psychologists.” Precht sees the willingness to take personal responsibility in modern society weakened by the plurality of roles in which the individual acts. “My Wikipedia entry already breaks me down into a number of different categories [...] Belonging to several roles makes it a lot easier for me not to be responsible for the whole of this world. Responsible - it's always the others. The politicians, for example, or the business bosses. Unfortunately, they too fall into little roles. ”In the third part of the study (“ Morals and Society ”) Precht would like to encourage changes in the economy, society and politics, with which“ our commitment to others can be promoted - in times when our society is at stake like it has not been for decades. ”In order to be able to solve the long-term problems, a restructuring towards more co-determination and more direct democracy is necessary. What is needed is "more responsibility from above and below."

2011 appeared Why is there everything and not nothing? , a book about philosophical questions and their answers, including his son Oskar, with whom his father plays a question-and-answer game on walks through Berlin.

In 2013 Precht published a book on education and the German school system. In Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott : The education system's betrayal of our children , he criticizes the existing education system fundamentally and calls for an “educational revolution” because the existing system is neither child-friendly nor effective.

In 2015, Erkenne die Welt appeared , the first volume in a four-volume history of philosophy. Precht conceives the project as a "philosophical history of philosophy" based on Kant's concept and wants to promote the understanding of the history of ideas among the readership through references to contemporary politics, social and economic history. (P. 16 f.) The “entire work, which is explicitly limited to the history of Western philosophy (p. 11), sees itself as a kind of sequel to the same big questions in their respective new clothing." (P. 19). The second volume, Recognize yourself , was published in autumn 2017. The third volume, Be yourself , was published on October 14, 2019, the fourth and final volume, Make the World , is announced for October 2021.

In his 2018 book Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. A utopia for the digital society , Precht deals with the effects of the digital revolution on the world of work, the psyche, society and politics. He criticizes the lack of a societal utopian ability, which leaves progress solely to technology and economy, with dangerous consequences. Precht predicts a complete transformation of the world of work, in which significantly fewer people than before can make a living from gainful employment. In order to enable people in the future to lead a self-determined, fulfilling life, he advocates an unconditional basic income , co-financed by financial transaction taxes .

Precht has been co-editor of agora42 magazine since December 2010 .

Television broadcast

The ZDF radiates since 2012 under the title Precht a series with interlocutors from politics and society, which acts as host Precht and dialogue partners. It can be seen six times a year on late Sunday evenings and lasts 45 minutes each. Gero von Boehm is directing the film .

Political positions

Richard David Precht in Frankfurt am Main (2011)

Richard David Precht has been present in the media with his own statements on current political issues well before his television program Precht began . In lectures and books he also deals with philosophical topics as well as political issues of the present and future.

New civil society and social responsibility

For Precht, the “unique world-history state of emergency” in the Federal Republic of Germany was over by the turn of the millennium, which nevertheless produced more and more prosperity with less and less individual work to be done. The conventional economy is now exposed to global competition, which makes the available cake smaller and increases the number of blackheads. The damage caused by the “growth mania” entangled the following generations in a struggle for survival strategies and repairs. The necessary rethinking towards a more sustainable and responsible way of doing business affects the state, banks, citizens and entrepreneurs alike. A new entrepreneurial ethos is required . "Instruments must be effective at all levels that reduce the scope for negligence, greed and abuse and promote social responsibility."

Precht sees the social benefits to be provided by the state in an orderly form in decline. “You shouldn't continue the discussion about more or less government as if you were dealing with too many options. Similar to the discussion about economic growth, it has long since ceased to be a question of whether you want that - but rather what will still be possible in the future. ”Approaching communitarianism , Precht developed the idea that the middle class step in for these tasks for which the state lacks the means in the future. He sees no shortage of potential for this, as every third German citizen over the age of 14 does voluntary work, even if the majority of them are in sports clubs. First of all, Precht is thinking primarily of the retirees of the “golden generation” with secure old-age incomes and a long life expectancy. "In this incredibly comfortable situation, which you did not create on your own, you have a moral obligation." In this context, he advocated a compulsory social year for both young and old.

digitalization

In numerous lectures, essays and interviews, Precht deals with the consequences of digitization for our society. He criticizes the fact that politicians see digitization almost exclusively as a technical problem and hardly ask any other question than that of the competitiveness of German companies. For Precht, on the other hand, digitization is a challenge for society as a whole that urgently needs to be politically shaped. If politicians do not act fast enough, Precht sees gloomy future scenarios: a society geared towards "efficiency gains" and "monopolization" with simultaneous mass unemployment. “Computers and robots do not cost any social security contributions, do not receive a pension, no vacation or maternity allowance. You don't sleep, but work day and night without any effort. "

The digital revolution brings about the most radical variety of capitalist economy, through which the user behavior is manipulated "in colorful and nicely designed living environments" and a previously unknown power is exerted on the subconscious of the people. "And it penetrates into all social spaces, into the car, into the apartment, into friendships and love relationships."

In fact, digital technology is thanks to “an increasingly global uniform civilization” with everything that can be “cheered on in terms of profits and losses”: “The digital code easily transcends national and cultural borders and levels them in a technical one Universal language made up of ones and zeros, as understandable on the Nile as it is on the Rhine and the Amazon. ”Since digital technology usually requires a lot of energy, it reinforces a disastrous development. According to Manager Magazin, the technology for the crypto currency Bitcoin alone consumes almost as much electricity per year as all of Denmark. "Google, Facebook and Co. can do everything - just not stop climate change, overcome world hunger or increase mineral resources and drinking water." Digitization is driving resource exploitation and climate change ever further.

Together with the computer scientist Manfred Broy , Precht calls on us to develop a “positive future scenario”: “Why don't we show how a new form of society, economy and lifestyle can arise due to the possibilities of digitization?” The legacy of the Enlightenment is to be to think the future shaped by people, not to place it in God's hands or in the hands of "an evolution of technology according to its own rules". "Let us regain our autonomy - not only in our interest, but above all in the interest of all future generations!"

Artificial intelligence

In an essay in Die Zeit , which is based on his book Artificial Intelligence and the Meaning of Life , published in June 2020 , Precht opposes the widespread idea that in the foreseeable future a superintelligence will be superior to the human brain in all areas. The evolution had resulted from the will to survive many of intelligence very few creatures. Conversely, however, it is not possible for a will to grow out of intelligence. In future, a developed artificial intelligence (AI) does not threaten bad will or power striving ; rather, the potential danger lies in their incorrect use. Programming AI ethically cannot succeed because the moral intuition of people does not flow in a regular way, but is "highly situational, dependent on the context and closely linked to our self-esteem and our self-concept". In a review of his book in Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Precht's criticism of a possible AI in high-frequency trading is highlighted.

Unconditional basic income

As part of his presentations on topics such as digitization, civil society, education and poverty, Richard David Precht takes a position for an unconditional basic income. As the main reasons for this, he cites the higher unemployment to be expected from digitization , the prevention of collective poverty and the ability to finance it, for example through financial transaction taxes . In view of mini-jobs , temporary work , bogus self-employment and unpaid internships , it is already evident that the welfare state is no longer intact.

In 2018, according to Precht, only 53 percent of employees had paid work. Accordingly, fewer and fewer people would be able to live on their retirement in the future. In such constellations, the BGE can provide security. In a “humane society of the future”, the unconditional basic income will overcome a concept of performance based solely on gainful employment, which is already blind to the social performance of many people. “The compulsion to do monotonous and demoralizing work is eliminated. This creates the material basis for a social utopia that understands the human being as a free individual. "

migration

Regarding migration, Precht says that “the exodus of refugees from their home countries [...] has only just begun”. He will “reshape the geography of the 21st century. And he will have to change the politics of the rich European countries with a view to a new cross-national solidarity. ”With this in mind, he and Rupert Neudeck advocate a foreign policy to prevent refugees and targeted development aid for a few selected countries in order to actually advance them decisively.

European Union

Since the Brexit referendum at the latest, Europe has needed a new narrative , believes Precht, that will replace the world war-oriented narrative "of the learning of peoples and the victory of peace over ruthless competition and bloody barbarism". The answer can be found in Alexis de Tocqueville's work on Democracy in America. There it is about the same thing as in Europe today: "uninterested citizens, a people of traders, not concerned with the common good, but with themselves." The greater the prosperity, the more apolitical the people - with a democracy that has been undermined in the end. With a view to the current orientation of the European Union and its citizens, Precht turns against “limitless capitalism”: “It has erased our citizenship down to the fine underwear of our consciousness and made us customers, consumers and users.” Certainly there is In this country, too, a minority - still tending to decline - of people who care about the common good and who exercise their freedom by committed to the common good. However, Precht concluded in agreement with Tocqueville that one could not have both: "Passionate citizens who care for the common good and passionate consumers who daily crave their benefit."

education

Precht is a sharp critic of the existing German education system, which he considers neither effective nor suitable for children. He calls for an educational revolution - similar to the one in the 1960s and 1970s - in order to make Germany's schools fit for a society that has been completely changed under the auspices of digital and to restore more equity in education. “We need different teachers, different methods and a completely different way of living together in school.” The positive changes that exist are only piecemeal. The existing all-day schools are in reality only half-day schools with afternoon care. The integrated comprehensive schools merely supplemented the old three-tier school system. “The system errors - the selection, the uniform learning with subjects, the grading of performance with numbers - persist. It is no longer enough to keep patching up something new to this old system. We must finally have the courage to replace one with the other. ”But school policy has become discouraged overall. “We have to become capable of utopia again with regard to school.” Precht would also like to see the newer learning research taken into account in everyday school life in the future, for example with the note: “We try to convey education through subjects that are incoherent, and we have five of them or six a day. That has nothing to do with how learning works. ”By redesigning the school accordingly, the long-term intrinsic motivation of pupils to learn and the individualization of teaching and learning processes should be promoted .

Animals

With regard to dealing with animals in society, Precht recognizes a schizophrenia between keeping pets and the high sensitivity of many people on the one hand and the everyday practice of keeping animals on the other. He calls for a legal reform based on animal ethics with regard to the inclusion of animal rights in the Animal Welfare Act and rejects hunting , fur farms , industrial animal husbandry and exploitation, animal experiments and especially experiments on primates , which are still widely accepted by society . Precht, who is not vegan himself , still considers this way of life to be “right and good”.

Future of the automobile drive

Precht appeared as a critic of the social focus and political promotion of battery-supported electric mobility , since the environmental balance in this regard in studies of the life cycle of vehicles is only slightly better than that of vehicles with internal combustion engines. Instead, in terms of climate protection, they should rely on fuel cells . In a column, Martin Seiwert contradicted the numbers given by Precht. Precht then repeated his opinion on a television appearance.

Reproductive medicine and biotechnology

As with cosmetic surgery, reproductive medicine could, according to Precht, “become a rapidly growing market that is setting completely new standards.” With the increase in technical possibilities, “the desires of ambitious and intrepid parents also grow.” Besides the Predetermination of gender in the course of pre-implantation diagnosis (PGD) would then also include size and various taste and trend-related beauty features. Even if it is not the task of the state, according to Precht, to protect parents from their wishes and their tastes, it still has to avert foreseeable damage to society. "If today and in the future it is possible to choose what was previously determined by chance, the result is sequential chains of incalculable proportions." To be afraid of "consumption eugenics" is "a deep general uncertainty."

According to Precht, human dignity, which includes the uniqueness of the human individual, speaks against the cloning of inherited people; the clone, however, would be a “dividuum”, something divided - with predictable psychological risks. When cloning for research purposes, Precht attaches importance to the separate consideration of embryonic stem cells (“like fresh snow that can take on all imaginable colors and shapes”) and adult stem cells with more limited possibilities of transformation.

Perspectives in the corona crisis

In a Zeit article , Precht considers the corona crisis as a "great awakening" from self-evident habits and perspectives . Under these circumstances, human adaptability no longer knows what to adapt to. To perceive viruses not as computer viruses , but in a biological sense, must first be learned again. The return of biology under the sign of the virus is pointing in a different direction than that of unconditional technological expansion. In view of the corona pandemic, Precht does not see globalization at its end, even if it shows its fragility. Corrections are necessary with regard to regional and analogous needs. After surviving the crisis, Precht expects the current “alternative feeling” to echo. A reduced dynamic of the "faster-higher-further-more" and gain of space for togetherness do not seem particularly likely to Precht; but he still believes sustainable reconstruction is possible. In mid-June 2020, Precht said in an interview with Handelsblatt that Germany had "obviously overreacted in parts" to the pandemic measures.

euthanasia

With regard to the permissibility of medical euthanasia for incurably doomed patients, Precht makes a relevant distinction between passive euthanasia , for example by discontinuing treatment, indirect euthanasia by administering life-shortening strong painkillers , assisting suicide , for example by providing lethal substances, and active euthanasia , for example by using a lethal injection. In doing so, Precht does not allow the right to self-determination to die - as part of human dignity - to apply without restrictions. “Most people intuitively believe that pain relieving care is a better way to kill death than lethal injection. This intuitive feeling is firmly anchored in human nature [...]. "

As a result, active euthanasia can only be provided as a last resort "when no other path is open." Palliative medicine should therefore be promoted intensively and the more humane way for doctors and patients. With reference to a possible increasing social pressure of expectation in the case of the approval of medical euthanasia, Precht sums up: “What actually happens today in the gray area of ​​passive, indirect and active euthanasia in German hospitals should always be better than a legal and moral philosophical one and a clear position for active euthanasia. "

reception

Precht is perceived as a public intellectual , as a “citizen philosopher” (Die Zeit) , “medial all-purpose weapon” ( Der Spiegel) and as a “world concept philosopher” ( The European ) . His popular philosophical non-fiction books from 2007 to 2011 conveyed topics of contemporary philosophy to a broad public. Since 2013 Precht has been preparing the history of philosophy of the West as a problem history and interfering in social debates such as the question of a better education system, future animal ethics or the social consequences of digitization. His socio-political ideas are discussed in the media a lot and often very controversial.

In the article “Die Precht AG” the journalist Sebastian Balzter describes the success factors of Precht in the FAZ . He owes his rise to the literary critic Elke Heidenreich , who wrote his book “ Who am I - and if so, how many? “Clearly praised what led to a very strong increase in sales. Precht does not spread “anything that others have not already thought and written down before him. But nobody expresses it so clearly, knows how to tell about it so smoothly ”. He thus “so perfectly” fills a niche in the market as if Bertelsmann had “put it together from the marketing kit especially for it”. Marketing professor Holger J. Schmidt agrees with Balzter's assessment in a scientific introductory work on the subject of personal branding .

Awards

Private

He was married to the Luxembourg TV presenter and deputy editor-in-chief of RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg , Caroline Mart . The marriage ended in divorce. Precht has a son from a previous relationship.

Publications

Richard David Precht at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2016)

Books

Essays and articles (selection)

Movie

  • Lenin only got as far as Ludenscheid. Documentary and feature film, Germany, 2008, 88 min., Screenplay: Richard David Precht, director: André Schäfer, production: Florianfilm, commissioned by WDR , SWR , cinema premiere: June 1st, 2008 in Solingen, film review: The documentary was nominated for the German Film Award 2009 .

literature

  • Gero von Boehm : Richard David Precht. February 18, 2009. Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 650–660.

Web links

Commons : Richard David Precht  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Richard David Precht  - Quotes

Remarks

  1. ^ Philosopher Precht teaches at the Leuphana. ndr.de, June 1, 2011, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved June 17, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Press release of the university , accessed on November 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Richard David Precht: Lenin only came to Lüdenscheid. My little German revolution . 1st edition. List, Berlin 2007, p. 21 .
  4. ↑ LENIN ONLY CAME TO LÜDENSCHEID - RICHARD DAVID PRECHT. Accessed April 12, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ "Helmut Schmidt was a right man". Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ To Ursula März , Precht emphasized that he had completed his studies in the academic sprint of eight semesters and with top grades, as well as the doctorate on Musil. (See Our Citizen Philosopher. Ursula March in: Die Zeit , January 5, 2011; accessed on January 31, 2019.)
  7. ↑ Title of the dissertation from 1994: The sliding logic of the soul. Aesthetic self-reflexivity in Robert Musil's " The Man Without Qualities "
  8. ↑ The film was shown in German art house cinemas in 2008 and reached more than 20,000 viewers.
  9. ↑ Book report: Annual bestseller 2008 ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, p. 14 f.
  11. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, p. 307 f.
  12. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, p. 20 f.
  13. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, pp. 471 and 488.
  14. ↑ “Almost all questions in the ancient world are still ours: What is a good life? What is truth Is there justice, and if so, how is it possible? Does life have a purpose? Where does man stand in nature and in space? Is there god Etc. These questions run like a red thread through the reflections on human history. If one wants to do justice to them, one cannot avoid classifying and evaluating the views of earlier philosophers from today's perspective and distinguishing strengths from weaknesses. "( Erkenne die Welt , p. 17)
  15. ↑ "Be yourself - History of Philosophy Volume 3" on randomhouse. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Homepage of the show
  17. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: ZDF discontinues "Philosophical Quartet". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 26, 2012, accessed on March 26, 2012.
  18. ↑ Precht wants to address people's everyday problems. In: Die Welt, July 23, 2012, accessed on July 26, 2012.
  19. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, pages 435 and 374. (Compare also: "In fact, economic growth has long since stopped promoting prosperity, but is ruining it. Every new motorway increases noise, every new shopping center expropriates the middle class, and the taxpayers and the environment. "Quoted from Richard David Precht: The estranged republic. The presidential election is about more than just an office or a person . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 2010, p. 116-117 ( Online - June 28, 2010 ). )
  20. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback 2012, p. 411.
  21. ↑ The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, p. 423 f.
  22. ↑ In the long run, however, all generations would have to fill the gaps left open by the increasingly overwhelmed state. ( The art of not being an egoist. Paperback edition 2012, p. 420 f.)
  23. ↑ How a “nasty pensioner becomes a nice person” - derStandard.at. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (Austrian German).
  24. ^ Richard David Precht: Thoughts on the digital revolution. In: VISIONMAG. August 12, 2016, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 26, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Marc Boos: Richard David Precht: We need a positive utopia. May 3, 2016, accessed February 11, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 129.
  27. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 38.
  28. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 35.
  29. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 248.
  30. ↑ Manfred Broy and Richard David Precht: Data eat up the soul. Digitization is becoming the fourth industrial revolution. But there is no socio-political answer . In: The time . No. 5 , 2017, p. 8.
  31. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 261.
  32. ↑ Robots have no morals. Why the talk of super-intelligent, all-powerful machines is just a big red herring. In: Die Zeit , June 18, 2020, p. 32.
  33. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 21, 2020. ( Richard David Precht on artificial intelligence. Accessed July 10, 2020.)
  34. ↑ https://www.xing.com/news/klartext/warum-ich-mich-fur-das-grundeinkommen-einsetze-2414
  35. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 141 f.
  36. ↑ Hunters, Shepherds, Critics. 2018, p. 149.
  37. ^ Richard Precht: Morality: Real dreams, real need . In: The time . January 14, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 4, 2016]).
  38. ^ Richard David Precht and Rupert Neudeck. Video content not archived, reputable source sought. September 12, 2015, archived from the original on December 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  39. ↑ Our irritated souls. Europe needs citizens and not consumers. A plea for a new European narrative. In: The time . September 22, 2016, p. 42.
  40. ^ Richard David Precht: We need an educational revolution! In: Cicero ; accessed on June 4, 2020.
  41. ↑ "Are you the better teacher, Mr. Precht?" Interview with Thomas Kerstan and Martin Spiewak in: Die Zeit , April 11, 2013; accessed on June 4, 2020.
  42. ↑ Richard David Precht in an interview with Britta Heidemann: "No grades, no classes - Richard David Precht wants to revolutionize schools." In: DerWesten.de, April 19, 2013; accessed on June 4, 2020
  43. ↑ “The misery is greater than ever”, Richard David Precht on meat consumption and animal husbandry: Naturefund. In: www.naturefund.de. Retrieved December 4, 2016 .
  44. ^ "Factory farming is the greatest ecological problem of our time". In: Vegan is the future. June 28, 2019, accessed on June 28, 2019 (German).
  45. ↑ So z. B. in this interview from 2019 Wolfgang Schütz: Richard David Precht: "People love prohibitions" , Augsburger Allgemeine, online from July 9, 2019
  46. ↑ Martin Seiwert: Richard David Precht in the fact check , Wirtschaftswoche from July 16, 2019
  47. ↑ Petra Kohrun: “Lanz”: David Precht railed against “Verasocialization” - waz panorama of October 20, 2019
  48. ↑ Precht: Who am I ...? 28th edition 2007, p. 252 and p. 256 f. "How many children will one day sue their parents for not 'optimizing' them early on? Because PGD will probably be followed in the foreseeable future by pre-implantation repair (PIR) and pre-implantation optimization (PIO). "(Ibid., P. 257)
  49. ↑ Precht: Who am I ...? 28th edition 2007, p. 261 f.
  50. ↑ Although the purposeful use of embryonic stem cells does not violate human dignity (which requires awareness), adult stem cells that are obtained for therapeutic purposes from one's own body organs have the advantage of not triggering any rejection reactions. When weighing up the promises of salvation derived from embryonic and adult stem cell research, research with adult stem cells appears to be “the much better way” for the time being. (Precht: Wer bin ich ...? 28th edition 2007, pp. 242–249; citations p. 245 and 249.)
  51. ↑ The Great Awakening. For a long time, people acted as if there were no alternatives to many political decisions. The pandemic puts an end to this fairy tale. In: The time . April 2, 2020, p. 46.
  52. ↑ Richard David Precht on Corona shutdown: "We have obviously overreacted." Handelsblatt dated June 15, 2020 (also called up date)
  53. ↑ Precht: Who am I ...? 28th edition. 2007, p. 198 f .; Quote p. 206.
  54. ↑ Precht: Who am I ...? 28th edition. 2007, p. 207 f.
  55. ↑ “Precht didn't just make a career in Affenzahn. He also established the model of the citizen-oriented, visible, committed intellectual, which is more likely to exist in France, but not in the Federal Republic. "Ursula März: Richard David Precht: Our citizen philosopher . In: The time . January 5, 2011, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  56. ↑ Thomas Tuma: Vielosoph to go. In: Der Spiegel 34/2011. Spiegel Online , accessed November 21, 2016 .
  57. ↑ Precht's approach, believes Krisha Kops, differs from that otherwise used in philosophy and among public intellectuals in this country, where the school is often more devoted to the concept of school than to the world concept. This is precisely why “world concept philosophers” like Precht are attacked for their alleged pop philosophy. "In doing so, he tries exactly what Schweitzer did and what Cassirer demanded: to thematize what affects everyone, with a style that is not only accessible to an educated elite." Krisha Kops: Richard David Precht versus Peter Sloterdijk . In: TheEuropean . May 21, 2017 ( theeuropean.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  58. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Rich through philosophy: Die Precht-AG , from December 30, 2017
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  61. ↑ deutscher-fernsehpreis.de: List of the 2013 award winners (German, accessed on October 22, 2013)
  62. ↑ Marc Bartl: German Television Prize: Precht receives award for ZDF philosophy program. In: kress. September 26, 2013, accessed October 4, 2013 .
  63. ^ PETA Deutschland eV: PETA "Progress Awards 2017": Animal rights organization honors Richard David Precht. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
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personal data
SURNAME Precht, Richard David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen