Provost Lecture - Bernhard Waldenfels: Response and Trust: Some Aspects of Responsive Ethics HD

A professor of philosophy at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, since 1976, Bernhard Waldenfels has written books about phenomenology, dialog theory, and structures of behavior. He was co-founder and vice president of the German Society for Phen omenological Research from 1970 to 1976 and president from 1994 to 1996. He also was a member of the scientific board of the College International at Paris from 1990 to 1998 and has been on the advisory board of the Institute for Genocide Studies at the University of Bochum since 1994. In this talk, response and trust will be presented as two central motives of a responsive ethics, which goes against every sort of communicative ethics orientated merely toward common aims and general norms.