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Otfried Höffe (born 12 September 1943 in Leobschütz, Upper Silesia Province, Prussia) is a German philosopher and professor.

Otfried Höffe
Born (1943-09-12) 12 September 1943 (age 79)
Leobschütz, Upper Silesia Province, Prussia
NationalityGerman
OccupationPhilosopher and professor

Academic career


From 1964 to 1970, Höffe studied philosophy, history, sociology and theology at the universities of Münster, Tübingen, Saarbrücken and Munich. His 1971 dissertation was on the practical philosophy of Aristotle. In 1970 and 1971, he was visiting scholar at Columbia University.

Höffe qualified as a professor in Munich in 1974 with a dissertation on Strategies of Humanity. On the ethics of public decision-making. In 1976, he got his first full professorship at the University of Duisburg. From 1978 until 1992, he was professor for social philosophy in Fribourg, Switzerland. Höffe also had a lectureship in social ethics at the ETH Zurich from 1986 to 1998. Since 1992, Höffe is a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen. In 2002, he also became constant guest professor for philosophy of law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His main and most famous books, including Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace translated by Cambridge University Press, deal with ethics, philosophy of law and economics, and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle.

In April 2020, Höffe was appointed by Minister-President Armin Laschet of North Rhine-Westphalia to a 12-member expert group to advise on economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.[1]


Personal life


Höffe resides in Tübingen.


Bibliography


[none of the translations of his work into English are listed]


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