Background
Robert Spaemann was born on May 5, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Heinrich and Ruth Spaemann.
Schlossplatz 2, 48149 Münster, Germany
Robert Spaemann received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Münster.
Robert Spaemann
Robert Spaemann
Robert Spaemann
(In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, ...)
In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, philosopher Robert Spaemann reacts against what he calls "scientistic" anthropology and ventures to take up afresh the quaestio de homine, "the question of man."
https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Anthropology-Variations-Robert-Spaemann/dp/1606088955/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Essays+in+Anthropology%3A+Variations+on+a+Theme&qid=1606317720&s=books&sr=1-1
1987
(Takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principle...)
Takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principle of ethics. Drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato, and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, this book discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being.
https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Benevolence-Academic-Paperback-Spaemann/dp/0567042316/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Happiness+and+Benevolence&qid=1606317831&s=books&sr=1-1
1989
(An examination and defense of the concept of personality,...)
An examination and defense of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack, by a leading European philosopher. Persons takes issue with major contemporary philosophers, especially in the English-speaking world (such as Parfit and Singer), who have contributed to the eclipse of the idea, and traces the debate back to the foundations of modern philosophy in Descartes and Locke. Robert Spaemann offers extended discussions of the sources of the idea in Christian theology and its development in Western philosophy. He also provides a number of pointed discussions of pressing practical questions - for example, our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals. The book covers a great deal of ground before coming to a focused conclusion: all human beings are persons.
https://www.amazon.com/Persons-Difference-%60Someone-%60Something-Theological/dp/0198808488/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Persons%3A+The+Difference+between+%22Someone%22+and+%22Something%22&qid=1606317895&s=books&sr=1-1
1996
(Renowned German philosopher Robert Spaemann addresses the...)
Renowned German philosopher Robert Spaemann addresses these and other foundational enigmas in three eloquent short essays. Speaking wisdom to controversy, he offers carefully considered, novel approaches to key philosophical and theological questions about the nature of human love ("The Paradoxes of Love"), dignity ("Human Dignity and Human Nature"), and death ("Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?").
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Dignity-Human-Life-Natural/dp/080286693X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Love+and+the+Dignity+of+Human+Life%3A+On+Nature+and+Natural+Law&qid=1606317977&s=books&sr=1-1
2012
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Spaemann-Reader-Philosophical-2015-11-03/dp/B01FGMULQ4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=A+Robert+Spaemann+Reader%3A+Philosophical+Essays+on+Nature%2C+God%2C+and+the+Human+Person&qid=1606318118&s=books&sr=1-1
2015
Robert Spaemann was born on May 5, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Heinrich and Ruth Spaemann.
Robert Spaemann studied philosophy, history, theology, and romance languages at the universities of Münster, Munich, Fribourg, and Paris. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Münster, writing a dissertation on Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald and the origins of sociology out of the spirit of restoration under Joachim Ritter.
After working as an assistant to Joachim Ritter in Münster, Robert Spaemann was a professor of philosophy at the universities of Stuttgart (till 1968), Heidelberg (till 1972), and Munich (till his retirement in 1992). For Spaemann, the reasonableness of the belief in God is the center of his philosophy. He explains the traditional philosophical proofs of God and points out that these proofs of God still found philosophical admirers in the 20th century.
His main works include Happiness and Goodwill: Trying on Ethics (1989), Individuals, The Difference between "Something" and "Somebody" (1996), and Limits to the Ethical Dimension of Action (2001). One of his most important books was titled The Immortal Rumor - The Question of God and the Deception of Modernity. The work, published in 2005, was a fundamental philosophical reflection on the question of God and the proof of God, a theme to which Robert Spaemann repeatedly returned in his more than 60 years of creative work.
Robert Spaemann made an important contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology, opening up possibilities for conversation between these disciplines. He was considered one of the first ecologically oriented philosophers and commented on abortion, euthanasia, and brain death. His work is highly regarded by Pope Benedict XVI. His numerous honors include the Karl Jaspers Prize and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
(In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, ...)
1987(An examination and defense of the concept of personality,...)
1996(Renowned German philosopher Robert Spaemann addresses the...)
2012(Takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principle...)
1989In 1930 Robert Spaemann's parents converted to Catholicism, and the three-year-old Spaemann was also baptized.
As a political thinker, Robert Spaemann was a sharp critic of Marxist utopianism, at a time when much of German academic philosophy was under the Marxist influence.
As a philosopher, Robert Spaemann was much concerned with defending the Aristotelian teleological understanding of nature, and the relevance of that understanding for philosophical anthropology, ethics, and politics. His landmark 1978 essay "Nature," argued that the abandonment of a teleological understanding of nature in early modernity was one of the roots of the crisis of civilization.
Another focus of his work was the recovery of the Aristotelian and Christian understanding of happiness as the foundation of ethics. His 1989 monograph Happiness and Benevolence recovered the classical understanding of happiness from modern misunderstandings. As an ethicist, Spaemann was one of the most important European defenders of the lives of unborn children.
Robert Spaemann was a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Pontifical Academy for Life. He was also an honorary member of the Chilean Academy.
In 1950 Robert Spaemann married Cordelia Steiner. They had three children: Ruth, Christian, Susanne. In 2003 his wife died.