Wolfgang Hermann Müller

Wolfgang Hermann Müller (born January 26, 1930 in Breslau ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

biography

Müller graduated from high school in Herford in 1956 and studied in Marburg , Erlangen and Bonn . He was an assistant at the University of Mainz . He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Madras / India. Müller spent many years in India and carefully studied the philosophies there. In 1964 he moved to the Neuwied University of Education as a teacher of philosophy and sociology . There he was rector from 1966 to 1969. Then he went to the University of Education in Rhineland-Palatinate , Koblenz department. This became the University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz Department. Until his death, Müller held a philosophy seminar there as an emeritus .

Positions

He represented the legal-philosophical view that the jurisdiction should be based on a formal ethics instead of a material ethics of values, as is the case today in German law. He justified this position with the fact that he was of the opinion that an overflowing abundance of legal literature did not lead to legal clarity in the judiciary and even less to legal certainty for the individual citizen. Müller's point of view was the idea that the introduction of simple legal principles would contribute to the purification of legal ideas and thus a simplification of the German legal conception, that is to say transparency of court judgments, as well as a general knowledge of the legal situation. The law should follow simple formal principles and not branch out into complex lists of details.

Müller looked back on immense readings and cited names such as Voltaire , Auguste Comte and Thomas Robert Malthus as historical witnesses to his ideas . Everywhere there has been a failure to follow a simple principle instead of producing infinite rules that ultimately become confusing.

In his lectures he conveyed the ideas of past greats from Plato to Kant . He did not like currents which, from a philosophical point of view, sought to lower the value of reason. This could mean Nietzsche as well as the Frankfurt School , but also Noam Chomsky , whose theorems he was of course familiar.

Publications

• The philosophy of Edmund Husserl according to the main features of its origin and its systematic content , dissertation, 1956
• Eros and Sexus in the judgment of the philosophers , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1985, ISBN 978-3-416-01892-0
• Ethics as science and legal philosophy according to Immanuel Kant , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3884797085
• Principles of economic activity and their application , Lang Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-631-30477-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Laudation on the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Hermann Müller