Weyma Luebbe

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Weyma Lübbe (born December 18, 1961 in Münster ) is a German philosopher and university teacher.

Life

Lübbe moved to Switzerland with her family when she was a child. Her father is the philosopher Hermann Lübbe , one sister is the professor and former Federal Constitutional Court judge Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff and her other sister is the law professor Anna Lübbe .

After finishing school, she studied philosophy , sociology , literature and economics in Zurich , Constance and Munich . In 1989 she received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Konstanz with a thesis on “Legitimacy through legality”. 1997 habilitation them there with "responsibility in complex cultural processes".

In 1999 Lübbe got a job as a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Leipzig . In 2009 she moved to the University of Regensburg as a professor of philosophy . Lübbe was a member of the German Ethics Council from 2008 to 2012 . Since March 2011 she has been a member of the ethics committee for secure energy supply .

Her research areas include topics of legal philosophy, social philosophy and political philosophy as well as ethics and applied ethics . In 1999 she was awarded the Rudolf Meimberg Prize of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . In 2009 she received the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Regensburg: Biography of Lübbe