Wilfried Hinsch

Wilfried Hinsch (born September 17, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher whose main focus is political philosophy and ethics . Hinsch is currently teaching at the University of Cologne .

Career

Hinsch studied philosophy in Hamburg from 1976 to 1984 with the minor subjects general linguistics and modern German literature. In 1984 he received his doctorate , after which he received a post-doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation from 1985 to 1988 and visited St John's College (Cambridge) and the philosophy faculty of Harvard University .

His habilitation in philosophy took place at the University of Münster with the thesis “Justified Inequalities. Principles of Social Justice ”. This was followed by a substitute chair for practical philosophy in Leipzig in the 1997/1998 winter semester and another in Heidelberg in the 1998 summer semester. From 1998 he held his first professorship for practical philosophy in Saarbrücken until 2005, and since 2002 he has also been a permanent visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe in Bruges , Belgium . From 2006 to 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at RWTH Aachen University.

2006–2012 he was a member of the German Science Council . In 2007 he founded the “Human Technology Center” at RWTH Aachen University. From 2010 he held research grants for one year at the Max Weber College in Erfurt and at the Human Sciences Research College in Bad Homburg . Since 2011 he has been a professor at the University of Cologne.

Fonts (selection)

• On the idea of ​​political liberalism Frankfurt a. M. Suhrkamp, ​​1997
• Justified inequalities. Principles of Social Justice Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2002
• Protect human rights militarily. A plea for humanitarian interventions with Dieter Janssen, Munich: CH Beck, 2006
• Manual of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy (HPPS), 2 Vol., (With Stefan Gosepath and Beate Rössler, Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 2008)
• The moral of the war. For an enlightened pacifism . Co-author: Peter Sprong. Piper 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05771-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilfried Hinsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Wilfried Hinsch at the University of Cologne