SPAEMANN, Robert 1927-

PERSONAL: Born 1927, in Berlin, Germany; son of Heinrich (a priest) and Ruth (a dancer; maiden name, Kraemer) Spaemann; married Cordelia Steiner, 1951; children: Ruth, Christian, Susanne. Education: Attended universities of Münster, Munich, and Fribourg (Switzerland); earned Ph.D. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Home—Umgelterweig 1OE, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany. Office—University of Münich; fax 0711/6979 137.

CAREER: Educator and author. Universities of Stuttgart, Heidelberg, and Münich, professor of philosophy, 1962-92.

MEMBER: Akademie der Wissenschaften, Pontificia Academia Pro Vita, Chilenian Academie (honorary member).

AWARDS, HONORS: Honorary degrees from University Fribourg, University of Navarre, University of Santiago, and Catholic University of America; Officer dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.

WRITINGS:

Reflexion und Spontaneität; Studien über Fénelon, Kohlhammer (Stuttgart, Germany), 1963.

Zur Kritik der politischen Utopie: Zehn Kapitel polit. Philosophie, Klett (Stuttgart, Germany), 1977.

Rousseau, Bürger ohne Vaterland: von der Polis zur Natural, Piper (Münich, Germany), 1980.

(With Reinhard Löw) Die Frage wozu?: Geschichte und Wiederentdeckung des teltologischen Denkens, Piper (Münich, Germany), 1981.

Moralische Grundbegriffe, C. H. Beck (Münich, Germany), 1982, translated by T. J. Armstrong as Basic Moral Concepts, Routledge (New York, NY), 1989.

Philosophische Essays, Reclam (Stuttgart, Germany), 1983.

Glück und Wohlwollen, Versuch über Ethik, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1989, 3rd edition translated by Jeremiah Alberg as Happiness and Benevolence, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 2000.

(Withe Christoph Schönborn and Albert Görres) Zur kirchlichen Erbsündenlehre: Stellungnahmen zu einer brennenden Frage, Johannes (Einsiedeln, Germany), 1991.

(With Wolfgang Welsch and Walther Ch. Zimmerli) Zweckmässigkeit und menschliches Glück, Fränkischer (Bamberg, Germany), 1994.

Personen: Versuche über den Unterschied zwischen "etwas" und "jemand," Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1996.

Grenzen, zur Ethischen Dimension des Handelns, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 2001.

Spaemann's works have been translated into thirteen languages.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ethics, July, 1991, John Deigh, review of Basic Moral Concepts, p. 891.

Isis, March, 1988, p. 149.

Library Journal, March 1, 2000, David Gordon, review of Happiness and Benevolence, p. 96.

Review of Metaphysics, September, 1997, Arthur Madigan, review of Philosophische Essays, p. 105.