Professor Dr. Dr. Karl Homann is owner of the chair philosophy and at the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich. Together with its pupils it developed the not undisputed institution-economic beginning to the restaurant economics.

Curriculum Vitae

After its study of philosophy, Germanistik and catholic theology he attained a doctorate 1972 to the Dr. phil. Subsequently, study of the political economy, with graduation to the Dr. rer. pole. 1979. 1985 Habilitation for philosophy (University of Goettingen). Of 1986-1990 professor for political economy and philosophy at the private University of Witten/Herdecke, as well as of 1990 - 1999 professor for economics and enterprise ethics at the economiceconomics faculty Ingolstadt of the catholic University of (Karl Homann was in the Federal Republic of Germany of first owners of a chair of this kind).

Since 1999 professor for philosophy with special consideration of the philosophical and ethical bases of the economics (restaurant economics) to the LMU Munich.

Theory

The Homanns pushes fundamentally at the dualism of moral and competition, as he is generally understood. This dualism is to be used the result of a superficial view and for a modern conception of restaurant economics not. In such it concerns no longer to out-tare the portions of moral on and competition on the other side the scale pan but, to dissolve exactly this apparent contradiction.

"In the public discussion, in which politics and in the media economiceconomics problems become pretty often by binaryistic eyeglasses regarded. Moral and economy, ethics and ecology and economics, solidarity and competition are out-played against each other. ["Â…] However above all those possibility is faded out of seeing ethics and as two sides medal not as each other excluding alternatives, but as matching twin sisters. "(Homann, 2004:9)

Ethics in this sense understands itself not as an ethics for the economy, but as a general ethics with economic method. This makes it possible to reconstruct moral in term OF economics which for the restaurant ethics and for the general ethics therefore is so fundamental, because the latters by focusing on the question of the standard reason the second important question of the standard implementation, which standard realization in the normal operation of modern societies, only treated or completely lost sight of. This new conceptual reconstruction possibility has actually thus extensive consequences, which the a strong weight lends: If one assumes humans obey moral standards only if they can expect of it "in the long term "individual advantages, then them have a fundamental answer now to the question of the implementation.

Literature

• Homann, Christoph (2004): Introduction to the restaurant ethics

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