Goethe Institute in B&H, in cooperation with the University of Sarajevo will be the host of the renowned Philosopher Otfried Höffe.
Höffe’s lectures will illuminate the concept of civic identity and the question of how much is democracy sustainable for the future. There will be a discussion with all participants.
The lecture on the topic ‘from minimal to world citizens: on western civic identity’ will be held on Wednesday at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, and the lecture ‘is democracy capable for the future’ will take place on Thursday at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo.
From 1964 to 1970 Otfried Höffe studied philosophy, history, theology and sociology in Münster, Tübingen, Saarbrücken and Munich. In 1971 he wrote a dissertation on the topic ‘practical philosophy-Aristotle’s model’, showing that it is a fundamental concept of striving for Aristotle’s ethics.
In 1970 and 1971, he was a visiting lecturer at Columbia University. In 1976 he became a full professor at the University in Duisburg. From 1978 to 1992 he was the head of the department of ethics and social philosophy and the director of the International Institute for Social Philosophy and Ethics in Fribourg.
At the same time, from 1978 to 1990 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University in Fribourg.
Since 1992 until he entered retirement in September 2011, Höffe taught as a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen, where in 1994 he founded the research section for political philosophy, and became a co-opted member of the Faculty of Law.
(Source: Fena)
