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Hon.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Lohner

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Short vita  (Hon.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Lohner)

Alexander Lohner studied philosophy, theology and social psychology.
He received his doctorate in philosophy and theology and habilitated with a thesis on medical ethics.
He has taught and lectured at the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Kassel.
He has published several scientific books and articles in journals and newspapers.
In 2006, he was appointed Professor by the University of Kassel.

Outside of academia, he is active in teacher training, as a medical ethicist and in development cooperation. Among other things, he is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg.
Alexander Lohner lives in Cologne.

Publications  (Hon.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Lohner)

Independent publications

  • Octavia. The consort of Nero (novel). Kisslegg 2013.
  • The Shroud of Jesus (novel). Berlin 2005.
  • The Jewess of Trento (novel). Berlin 2004.
  • Personality and human dignity. A theological examination of the theses of the "new bioethicists". Regensburg 2000 (= habilitation thesis)
  • The pseudo-religious temptation. On the problem of sects and psycho-cults. Mönchengladbach 1999 (Series "Church and Society" of the Catholic Social Science Center Mönchengladbach. No. 258).
  • Death in Existentialism. An Analysis of the Fundamental Theological, Philosophical and Ethical Implications, Paderborn 1997 (= theological dissertation).
  • Peter Wust: Gewißheit und Wagnis, Paderborn 1995. (2nd, expanded edition of the phil. diss.)
  • Justification of abortion? A discussion with Peter Singer and Norbert Hoerster. Bonn 1993.
  • Memorial Peter Wust (with Ekkehard Blattmann). Münster 1991.

Articles in (specialist) journals and anthologies (a selection)

  • The care of the sick and dying in the world religions. In: Misereor (ed.): Global Health. Challenges and perspectives. Aachen 2024. p. 14 - 25.
  • The impact of work on health. In: Misereor (ed.): Global health. Challenges and perspectives. Aachen 2024. p. 26 - 29.
  • Does city air make you sick or healthy? A critical urban-rural geography. In: Misereor (ed.): Global health. Challenges and perspectives. Aachen 2024. p. 30 - 33.
  • The international poaching of health workers. An ethical dilemma. In: Misereor (ed.): Global health. Challenges and perspectives. Aachen 2024. p. 70 - 73.
  • The international poaching of health workers. An ethical dilemma. In: msk Focus. 3/2023. S. 9 - 12.
  • Effects of work on health. Socio-ethical reflections. In: msk Blickpunkt. 1/2023.  P. 7 - 10.
  • Certainty and Research, Security and Salvation. In: Hax-Schoppenhorst, T. and Georg, J. (eds.): Living through uncertainty and insecurity. How to deal with people in unpredictable life and health situations? Bern 2022. p. 99 - 107. 
  • The African AIDS crisis as an education crisis. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (eds.): ÜberLebenLernen. Education - Move and Participate. 2022. S. 52 - 53.
  • The stranger in us. Free will and evil. In: Bankruptcy book 57. Tübingen 2021. p. 131 - 142.
  • The importance of clean water for children's health. In: ZASS Foundation, KEB Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensMittel Wasser - und wie wir damit umgehen (sollten). Aachen 2021. p. 42 - 43.
  • Justice/social justice. In: Notepad. Material service for religion teachers in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. 68/2020. p. 18 - 19.
  • The Catholic martyrs Willi Graf and Christoph Probst: In: Theologisches. Catholic monthly magazine. Vol. 50. No. 07/08. p. 393 - 404.
  • Work and health. Ethical comments. In: ZASS Foundation, KEB Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensWerk ARBEIT - menschenwürdig und fair. Aachen 2020. p. 19 - 21.
  • The city in the world religions. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensRaum STADT. Aachen 2018. p. 29 - 33.
  • Health in the city and in the countryside. In: ZASS Foundation, KEB Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensRaum STADT. Aachen 2018. p. 61 - 63.
  • The theme of death in existential philosophy - in the light of near-death experiences. In: Nicolay, J. (ed.): Near-death experiences and life reviews. Experience reports - interpretations - ethical impulses. Goch 2017. p. 157 - 184.
  • On the centenary of the birth of St. Alexander Schmorell. In: Theological. Catholic monthly magazine. Vol. 47. No. 11/12. p. 535 - 554.
  • An unjust world for girls and women. In: mittendrin. Magazine of the German Scout Association of St. George. 78 Vol. 02/2016. p. 66 - 67.
  • The spiritual significance of water in world religions. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensMittel WASSER - wie wir mit unserer elementaren Ressource umgehen (sollte). Aachen 2016. p. 25 - 27.
  • The element of water in the Canticle of the Sun by Francis of Assisi. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (ed.): ÜberLebensMittel WASSER - wie wir mit unserer elementaren Ressource umgehen (sollten). Aachen 2016. p. 32 - 35.
  • Clean water - a basic requirement for children's health. . In: ZASS Foundation, KEB Germany and others (eds.): ÜberLebensMittel WASSER - wie wir mit unserer elementaren Ressource umgehen (sollten). Aachen 2016. p. 48 - 50.
  • Cage People in Hong Kong. In: Misereor (ed.): Age and ageing. Developments/analyses/potential for solidarity. Aachen 2015. p. 63 - 65.
  • Africa's grandmothers and the AIDS crisis. In: Misereor (ed.): Age and ageing. Developments/analyses/potential for solidarity. Aachen 2015. p. 66 - 67.
  • Marsilio Ficino. In: Gröschner, R. and Kapust, A. and Lembche, O.W. (eds.): Dictionary of Dignity. Munich/Paderborn 2013. p. 30f.
  • Clemens Baeumker. In: Blattmann, E.: Letters on philosophy by and to Peter Wust. Berlin 2013. p. 30 - 48.
  • Alois Dempf. In: Blattmann, E.: Letters on philosophy by and to Peter Wust. Berlin 2013. p. 85 - 122.
  • Not just half of the sky, but half of the world! On the global discrimination of women. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (eds.): wohin gehst du mensch? About life art in times of globalization. Aachen 2013. p. 40 - 43.
  • Worldwide discrimination against women. In: ZASS Foundation, CEF Germany and others (eds.): wohin gehst du mensch? ÜberLebensKunst in times of globalization. Aachen 2013. p. 40 - 43.
  • Article on the term "existence" in the New Handbook of Basic Philosophical Concepts (NHPG), edited by Petra Kolmer and Armin G. Wildfeuer, Freiburg (Verlag Karl Alber) 2011, pp. 743 - 757.
  • Human rights, poverty and health. In: VENRO-AG Gesundheit u. WELT-SICHTEN (ed.): Global Health. Frankfurt a. M. 8/2011. p. 3 - 7.
  • Aktionsbündnis gegen Aids (ed.): Babies without HIV. Stop mother-to-child transmission by 2015 (small print, 19 p.).
  • Children and Aids. In: Doing justice to HIV/Aids. Situation analyses on the pandemic. A dossier of the Action Alliance against AIDS in cooperation with the editorial team of WELT-SICHTEN. Frankfurt a. M. 8/2010. p. 10 - 11.
  • The world is not enough? (together with Alan Weisman; on population policy issues), In: Zorn & Zärtlichkeit. Misereor - The Magazine 2009. Aachen 2009. p. 56 - 60.
  • Marsilio Ficino's justification of human dignity and the significance of his reflections for fundamental questions of ethics today. In: Gröschner, R. and Kirste, S. and Lembcke, O. (eds.): Des Menschen Würde - entdeckt und erfunden im Humanismus der italienischen Renaissance. Tübingen 2008. p. 93 - 112.
  • Educational deprivation and AIDS - a vicious circle. In: Action against AIDS (ed.): Children and AIDS. Challenges and answers in development cooperation. Tübingen 2008. p. 9 - 16.
  • The dark side of reality (on theological aspects of crime literature). In: zur debatte. Topics of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria. 38. vol. 6/2008. p. 33 - 34.
  • The Significance of the Pastoral Constitution "Gaudium et Spes" for the Work of the Episcopal Aid Organization Misereor. In: Rogers, A. and Office of Human Development (OHD) (Ed.): Asian Consultation on Harmony through Reconciliation/Feisa VII: 40th Anniversary of the Pastoral Constitution on Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). Manila 2007. p. 129 - 133.
  • Education and AIDS. An excursus on Africa's educational plight. In: Misereor (ed.): Misereor Themes "Education". Aachen 2007. p. 22 - 27.
  • Ethics of family planning in the face of dramatic population problems. Human rights and dignity as a benchmark. In: Hirschberg "Grow and multiply?" 59th vol. 6/2006. p. 331 - 339.
  • Women have rights. But not everywhere! Gender and human rights. In: Misereor (ed.): Sharing the fullness of life. Materials for Lent. Sachheft 2006. p. 20 - 23.
  • With education and prevention against AIDS. In: Ludwig, S. and Wilhelm, J. (eds.): Aids has many faces. Projects of international cooperation. Dienheim 2007. p. 11 - 30.
  • When addiction is deadly. Gender and HIV/Aids. In: Misereor (ed.): Sharing the fullness of life. Materials for Lent. Sachheft 2006. p. 30 - 33.
  • Option for the poor or strategy of security policy? A contribution to the ethics of development cooperation from the perspective of theological social ethics. In: Hirsch, K. and Seitz, K.: Zwischen Sicherheitskalkül, Interesse und Moral. Contributions to the ethics of development policy. Frankfurt a. M./London 2005. p. 145 - 160.
  • "Sharing unites. Together against disease in the world". The Lent Campaign 2005 of the Episcopal relief organization Misereor. In: Healing and salvation. Announcements and Reports of the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg, 2/2005, p. 11 - 14.
  • Gender justice and AIDS. In: Fachkreis Ethik, Theologie und HIV & AIDS des Aktionsbündnisses gegen Aids (ed.): HIV und AIDS. Ethical-theological questions and attempted answers. Berlin 2005. p. 24 - 25.
  • Development cooperation: Option for the poor instead of a security policy strategy. In: Journal of Development Policy 12/2004. p. 30 - 32.
  • Participation in Christi misereor super turbam. The socio-ethical mission of Misereor (together with Josef Sayer), in: Anzeiger für die Seelsorge. Zeitschrift für Pastoral und Gemeindepraxis, 113. vol. 3/2004, p. 18 - 21.
  • Peter Wust and existential philosophy. In: Blattmann, E. (ed.): Peter Wust. Aspects of his thinking. In memory of F. Werner Veauthier. Münster 2004. p. 37 - 61.
  • Naivety and Piety, Wisdom and Holiness in the Work and Thought of Peter Wust. In: Blattmann, E. (ed.): Peter Wust. Aspects of his thinking. In memory of F. Werner Veauthier. Münster 2004. p. 87 - 97.
  • The episcopal relief organization Misereor. In: Healing and salvation. Mitteilungen und Berichte des Missionsärztlichen Instituts Würzburg, 2/2003, p. 5 - 8.
  • Ficino's psychology of individual immortality. Current aspects for fundamental ethics, in: Bloch, M. and Mojsisch, B. (eds.): Potentiale des menschlichen Geistes: Freiheit und Kreativität. Practical Aspects of the Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Stuttgart 2003. p. 233 - 256.
  • No right to life for unborn children? A discussion with the bioethicist Peter Singer. Notes on the history of ideas behind his theses, in: Bołoz, W. and Höver, G. (eds.): Utilitarianism in Bioethics. Its prerequisites and consequences using the example of Peter Singer's views. Münster/Hamburg/London 2002. p. 43 - 83. (Translation into Polish: Historyczne korzenie etycznych pogladów Petera Singera. In: Boloz, W. U. Höver, G.: Utylitaryzm w Bioetyce. Warszawa 2002. pp. 49 - 99).
  • Personality and the image of man - a critical examination of the concept of the person among the new bioethicists. In: Building blocks for the portrait of the co-patroness of Europe Edith Stein. Materials of the Edith Stein Society Germany in 2002. Speyer 2003. p. 45 - 63.
  • "And all at once we are - facing God". The Berlin writer Gerhart Pohl on his 100th birthday, in: Yearbook for the Archdiocese of Berlin 2002. p. 76 - 83.
  • Uncertainty in the venture of thinking. The connection between knowledge, life and morality in Peter Wust. In: Seidl, H.: Cognition and Life. Philosophical contributions to the relation of human cognition to life. Hildesheim/Zurich/New York 2002. p. 231 - 250.
  • The Christian image of man and the significance of marriage and family for a church moral doctrine. In: Deus semper maior, Festschrift für Georg Kardinal Sterzinsky, ed. by Rainer Kampling. Berlin 2001. p. 138 - 154.
  • Is compassion a sufficient basis for morality? Critical comments on Arthur Schopenhauer's and other ethics of compassion, in: Overdick-Gulden, M. and Schmid-Tannwald, I. (eds.): Prenatal medicine between healing mission and selection. Munich et al. 2001. p. 153 - 168.
  • Myth, philosophy or religion? An introduction to the worldview and ethics of Hinduism, in: Auf dem Weg zu einer indischen Kirche (= Grüne Schriftenreihe Berichte - Dokumente - Kommentare der Missionszentrale der Franziskaner e.V., I/2001). Bonn 2001. p. 7 - 16.
  • Disgust, death, the eternal return and the absurdity of existence. Nietzsche's philosophy as radical nihilism and counter-proposal to Christian ethics. In: Communio, 29. vol. 4/2000, p. 340 - 357.
  • Finitude as Existential. Heidegger's philosophy of death. In: Hölscher, A. and Kampling, R. (eds.): No answers. Reflections on dying and death. Berlin 2000. p. 103 - 119.
  • The ideology of esotericism and the "New Age". A challenge for the church, theology and pastoral care, in: Anzeiger für die Seelsorge. Zeitschrift für Pastoral und Gemeindepraxis, 109. vol. 2/2000, p. 60 - 66.
  • 16 Aspects of pregnancy conflict counseling. In: Anzeiger für die Seelsorge. 109. vol. 8, August 2000, p. 368 - 371.
  • When does a person's right to life begin? Critical comments on Peter Singer and Norbert Hoerster, in: Aufklärung und Kritik. Zeitschrift für freies Denken und humanistische Philosophie, 4th vol. 1/97, p. 22 - 37.
  • Population policy and the sanctity of human life. A contribution to ethical questions with special consideration of this problem in the industrialized countries and in the countries of the Third World, in: Wenn Leben verfügbar wird. Overpopulation, birth control and other issues. (= Grüne Schriftenreihe Berichte - Dokumente - Kommentare der Missionszentrale der Franziskaner e.V., IV/1997). Bonn 1997, pp. 19 - 38.
  • Naivety and piety, wisdom and holiness. Elemente theresianischer Spiritualität in Werk und Denken Peter Wusts, in: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, 26. Jg., H. 4/97, S. 311 - 324.
  • Death and Immortality in Gabriel Marcel, in: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift. Vierteljahrsschrift für das Gesamtgebiet der katholischen Theologie, 48. Jg., H. 2/97, p. 139 - 154.
  • How God became a stopgap and the world a machine. On the 400th birthday of the philosopher René Descartes, in: Communio, 25. vol. 2/96, p. 180 - 192.
  • The body-mind dualism really taken off the ground. (On the neurophysiological theories of Gerhard Roth and Helmut Schwegler), in: Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften. Streitforum für Erwägungskultur, 6 (1995), H. 1, pp. 101 - 103.
  • Avoiding suffering through abortion? An examination of the "Wunschkindthesen" of the sociologist Gerhard Amendt, in: Zeitschrift für Politik (ZfP), 42. vol. , H. 2/1995, P. 208 - 216.
  • Existential experience in silence before transcendence. On the 25th anniversary of the death of the philosopher Karl Jaspers, in: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, 23. Jg., H. 2/94, p. 165 - 178.
  • Personhood and the right to life. An examination of the theses of Peter Singer and Norbert Hoerster, in: Reiter, J. and Keller, R. (eds.), § 218. Urteil und Urteilsbildung, Freiburg/Basel/Vienna 1993, pp. 293 - 320.
  • In the last years of his life. (On the late work of the political scientist and state theorist Alexander Schwan), in: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, 22. Jg., H. 4/93, p. 377 - 382.
  • Death and the Absurd in Albert Camus. On the 80th birthday of the philosopher on November 7, 1993, in: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, 22. Jg., H. 5/93, p. 463 - 474.
  • Joseph Bernhart's "Autobiographische Erinnerungen", in: Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Dillingen an der Donau, XCV. Jg. 1993, p. 356 - 364 (abridged in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 7.1.1994).
  • God and mankind. Last questions and last answers of the philosopher Peter Wust, in: Rest, W. (ed.), Peter Wust. Reflexionen und Vorträge zum 50. Todestag des Philosophen, Münster 1991, pp. 17 - 50.
  • Hartmut von Hentig's media criticism. Screen instead of language? What remains for the pedagogue?, in: Mittelstraß, J. (ed.), Wohin geht Sprache? Reality - Communication - Competence, Essen 1989, pp. 149 - 157.

 

Articles in newspapers (a selection)

  • We have seen the Lord. A word on Easter - thoughts on death and resurrection. In: Church newspaper for the diocese of Aachen from 04.04.2010, p. 8 - 9.
  • The biblical option for the poor. In: The Pilgrim. Church newspaper for the diocese of Speyer 8/2007, p. 27.
  • Health is a human right. The fight against epidemics and diseases in development cooperation. In: The Pilgrim. Church newspaper for the diocese of Speyer. 45/2007, S. 25.
  • Hunger of the cannibals. The dispute over human material bred for consumption (on therapeutic cloning), in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 1.9.2000.
  • The burden of being a genius. On the hundredth birthday of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, in Rheinischer Merkur v. 23.4.1999.
  • Undaunted against the Nazi regime. On the 100th birthday of Kaj Munk, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 9.1.1998.
  • With leisure to wisdom. On the death of the Christian seeker of truth Josef Pieper, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 14.11.1997.
  • No more sand in the gears of the world. (On the 400th birthday of René Descartes), in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 29.3.1996.
  • Kant was also pernicious. Index Romanus: 30 years ago the Vatican abolished the catalog of forbidden books, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 14.6.1996.
  • Do you exist, dear reader? On the 75th birthday of the science fiction author and philosopher of technology Stanislaw Lem, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 6.9.1996.
  • The eternal woman. (On the 25th anniversary of the death of the writer Gertrud von Le Fort), in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 1.11.1996.
  • This side of good and evil. An intellectual authority in post-war Germany: On the 25th anniversary of the death of Karl Jaspers, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 25.2.1994.
  • What man is before life begins. After the Karlsruhe judgment. The scientific and philosophical view of § 218, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 4.6.1993.
  • "We are the crucifixion of God" The French philosopher Simone Weil died fifty years ago, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 20.10.1993.
  • God the Father in the grip of reason and understanding. The philosopher and writer Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was born 250 years ago, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 22.1.1993.
  • The inner voice - Does it know better? (On the concept of conscience), in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 12.6.1992.
  • A high price for the crown of creation. On the centenary of the birth of the philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist Helmuth Plessner, in: Rheinischer Merkur v. 4.9.1992.

 

Articles in encyclopedias

  • Gabriel Marcel, in: Metzler Lexikon Christlicher Denker, Stuttgart/Weimar 2000, p. 457f.
  • Simone Weil, in: Metzler Lexikon Christlicher Denker, Stuttgart/Weimar 2000, p. 727f.
  • Peter Wust, in: Metzler Lexikon Christlicher Denker, Stuttgart/Weimar 2000, p. 742f.
  • Peter Wust's "Ungewißheit und Wagnis", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 17, Munich 1992, pp. 868 - 869.
  • Paul Johannes Tillich's "Systematic Theology", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 16, Munich 1992, pp. 591 - 592.
  • David Friedrich Strauss' "Der alte und der neue Glaube", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 16, Munich 1992, pp. 60 - 61.
  • Many articles, consulting work and final editing for the "Enzyklopädie der Religionen" (Augsburg 1991).
  • Oswald v. Nell-Breuning's "Baugesetze der Gesellschaft. Gegenseitige Verantwortung - Hilfreicher Beistand", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 12, Munich 1991, pp. 289 - 290.
  • Christianity, in: Lexikon der Sekten, Sondergruppen und Weltanschauungen. Facts. Backgrounds. Clarifications, Freiburg/Basel/Vienna 1990, pp. 148 - 155.
  • Romano Guardini's "The Lord. Reflections on the Person and Life of Jesus Christ", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 7, Munich 1990, pp. 8 - 9.
  • Mircea Eliades "Schamanismus und archaische Ekstasetechnik", in: Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, vol. 5, Munich 1989, pp. 118 - 119.

In addition, a series of reviews (including books by Susanne Ehrlich, Margot Käßmann, Franco Rest, Josef Römelt, Karin Struck, F. Werner Veauthier, Manfred Weitlauff, Thomas Verny and John Kelly).

In addition, biographical articles (mainly about writers and philosophers) were written for various daily newspapers, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Georges Bernanos, Elsa Bernstein, Léon Bloy, Gottfried August Bürger, Albert Camus, Willa Cather, René Char, Vittoria Colonna, Dostoyevsky, Rudolf Eucken, William Faulkner, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Marieluise Fleißer, Theodor Fontane, Goethe, Willi Graf, Jakob Haringer, Ludwig Hölty, Ricarda Huch, Aldous Huxley, Erich Kästner, Alfred Kerr, Elisabeth Langgässer, Gustav Landauer, Jack London, Golo Mann, Klaus Mann, Daphne du Maurier, Christoph Probst, Alexander Pushkin, Jules Romaines, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Adalbert Stifter, August Strindberg, Karin Struck, J.R.R. Tolkien, B. Traven, Sigrid Undset, Thornton Wilder and Walt Whitman.

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