Prof. Dr. Christoph Horn EN
Prof. Dr. Christoph Horn
Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy
Contact
- Am Hof 1, 53113 Bonn
- Room: 1.085
- Phone: +49 [0]228 73-7742
- E-Mail: christoph.horn[at]uni-bonn.de
- Office hours during the lecture period: please make an appointment via E-Mail. The consultation will be held via Zoom.
Secretary’s Office
- Susanne Koch
- Am Hof 1, 53113 Bonn
- Room: 1.075
- Phone: +49 [0]228 73-9628
- E-Mail: susanne.koch[at]uni-bonn.de
Assistant Professors
- Dr. Anna Schriefl
- Dr. Simon Weber
- Dr. Denis Walter
Former assistant professors
- Prof. Dr. Corinna Mieth
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Söder
Student Assistants
- Kurt Avenarius
- Claas Lüttgens
- Julia Stockhausen
Research Areas
- Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle
- Practical Philosophy, especially Kant as well as Moral Philosophy and contemporary Political Philosophy
Personal Information (CV)
- Born in 1964
- Studies of Philosophy, Greek and Theology in Freiburg, Munich and Paris
- PhD in Munich in 1993: „Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit. Eine Studie zu den systematischen Grundlagen der Enneaden”, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1995: B.G. Teubner.
- Habilitation in Tübingen in 1999: „Grundlegende Güter. Untersuchungen zu einer
- handlungsteleologischen Ethik”, published at Klostermann, Frankfurt a.M.
- 2000-2001: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Gießen
- Since 2001: Professor of Ancient and Practical Philosophy at Bonn University
- 2003-2004: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2006-2007: Visiting professorship at Lausanne University
- 2008-2009: Senior Fellowship at Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover (FIPH)
- 2010: Offer for a professorship at Erlangen-Nürnberg University (rejected)
- Winter semester 2011: Visiting professorship at the University of Vienna
- August/September 2013: Visiting professorship at PUCRS Porto Alegre (Brasil)
- 2014: Offer for a professorship at Tübingen University
Positions and Memberships
- Editor of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (with K. de Boer, J. Carriero and S. Sauvé Meyer)
- Editor of the Gnomon (with M. Bentz, R. Bielfeldt, P. Eich, H.-J. Gehrke, M. Hose, J. Maran, K. Volk and P. Zanker)
- “Vertrauensdozent” in the Cusanuswerk in Bonn
- Cooptation by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Baden-Württemberg (April 2015)
- Cooptation by the Institut International de Philosophie (IIP), Paris (October 2017)
Current projects
- Commentary of Aristoteles’ Metaphysics Lambda
- Grundlegende Güter (studies into moral philosophy)
Supervision of doctoral projects
Martin Brecher
Würde der Menschheit und Zweck der Natur. Eine Rekonstruktion von Kants Eherecht und
Sexualethik
José Miguel Fernàndez
Der Begriff der Lebensform. Eine konzeptuelle Ausarbeitung
Cheng Guo
Cynismus bei Nietzsche
Teng He
Eine Untersuchung zur Willenstheorie des frühen Augustinus
Yu Heejin
Tugend und moralische Vollkommenheit bei Kant
Young Jin Kim
Der moralische Wille bei Kant und Wittgenstein
Rafael Moreno González
Schatten der Unterwelt: Die Vorstellungen über den Hades in den mittleren Dialogen Platons.
Zum Gebrauch des Hades-Motivs bei Platon
Kyungho Roh
The 'Political' and 'Anti-Political' in Plato's Republic
Mo Zhao
Necessity and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of Nature
Lectures
- Summer semester 2017
- Winter semester 2017/18
- Summer semester 2018
- Winter semester 2018/19
- Summer semester 2019
- Winter semester 2019/20
- Summer semester 2020
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