Vittorio Hösle

Vittorio Hösle
Vittorio Hösle, 2020
Born (1960-06-25) 25 June 1960
Milan, Italy
Education
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Objective idealism
InstitutionsUniversity of Notre Dame
Main interestsPractical philosophy
Notable ideasMoral universalism in Christianity as a form of moral progress
Moral realism
Objective idealism

Vittorio Hösle (/ˈhɜːrslə/; German: [ˈhøːslə]; born 25 June 1960) is an Italian-born German philosopher. He has authored works including Hegels System (1987), Moral und Politik (1997, trans. as Morals and Politics, 2004), and Der philosophische Dialog (The Philosophical Dialogue, 2006).

He has been in the United States since 1999, at the University of Notre Dame where he is the Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters (with concurrent appointments in the Departments of German, Philosophy, and Political Science). Since 2008, he has also served as the founding Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.