Peter Koslowski


Peter Koslowski was a professor of philosophy who specialized in the philosophy of management and organisation and the history of modern philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Biography

He was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1952, and studied at the University of Tübingen, the University of Munich, and Virginia Tech. He earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1979 and his master's degree in economics 1980.
1980-date Chair, CIVITAS. Society for the Promotion of Science and Art, Munich; 1991-96 Member of the Jury for the Max-Weber-Prize for Economic Ethics; Visiting professor Jesus College Oxford in 1993 and Hitotsubashi University Tokyo in 1994 on invitation of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; 1989/90 Member of the Working Group "Ethical and Social Aspects of the Exploration of the Human Genome" of the German Federal Minister for Research and Technology; 1995- Member of the Board of Advisors of the German Business Ethics Network ; 1995-2002 Director, Project "East | West | Philosophy" for the Scholarly Exchange with Russia; 1997-2003 Director, Project "A Discourse of the World Religions" at the World Exposition EXPO 2000 Hannover, Germany, 1997- Chair of the Froum for Economic Ethics and Economic Culture, German Philosophical Association ; 2002- Chair of the Working Group "Compliance and Ethics in Financial Institutions in the German Business Ethics Network"; 2001- Member, Executive Committee, ISBEE-International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics; 2002-2003 Member of the jury for the Prize for Intergenerational Justice of the Stiftung für die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen, Germany;

Lectures and honours

  • 2002 gave the De Vries Lecture in Economics of the Professor F. de Vries Foundation at Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 1998-2003 Senator, Stiftung Niedersachsen
  • 1998 Honorary Doctorate Degrees from A. I. Herzen Russian State University St. Petersburg and Russian State University of Commerce Moscow
  • 2001 Recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Bundesverdienstkreuz

    Publications

Principal books

Koslowski has written numerous books and co-authored/edited many more.
  • The Ethics of Banking. Conclusions from the Financial Crisis. German original: Ethik der Banken. Folgerungen aus der Finanzkrise, Chinese translation forthcoming.
  • Principles of Ethical Economy. German original: Prinzipien der Ethischen Ökonomie, French, Chinese, Russian translations.
  • Ethics of Capitalism, with a Comment by James M. Buchanan, in: Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology. Two Essays. German original: Ethik des Kapitalismus. Mit einem Kommentar von James M. Buchanan, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean translations.
  • Die postmoderne Kultur.
  • Philosophien der Offenbarung. Antiker Gnostizismus, Franz von Baader, Schelling, 2001, 2nd ed. 2003.
  • Der Mythos der Moderne. Die dichterische Philosophie Ernst Jüngers.
  • Vaterland Europa.
  • Wirtschaft als Kultur.
  • Politik und Ökonomie bei Aristoteles.
  • Gesellschaft und Staat. Ein unvermeidlicher Dualismus.
  • Staat und Gesellschaft bei Kant.
  • Nachruf auf den Marxismus-Leninismus.
As Editor:
  • Friedrich Gentz: The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution, edited and with an Introduction by Peter Koslowski, translated by John Quincy Adams , Chinese translation forthcoming. Free edition available online: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2376&Itemid=28
  • Elements of a Philosophy of Management.
  • The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism.
  • A Discourse of the World Religions, 5 Vols., Vol. 1: God, the Origin of the World, and the Image of the Human in the World Religions, Vol. 2: The Origin and Overcoming of Evil and Suffering, Vol. 3: Nature and Technology in the World Religions, Vol. 4: Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions, 2001–2002; Vol. 5: Philosophy Bridging the World Religions, 2003.
  • Gnosis und Theodizee. Eine Studie über den leidenden Gott des Gnostizismus.
  • Evolution and Society. An Assessment of Sociobiology, in: Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology.
  • Die Prüfungen der Neuzeit. Über Postmodernität.
  • Die Kulturen der Welt als Experimente richtigen Lebens. Entwurf für eine Weltausstellung.