Vittorio Hösle
Vittorio Hösle | |
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Vittorio Hösle, 2020 | |
| Born | 25 June 1960 Milan, Italy |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Objective idealism |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
| Main interests | Practical philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Moral 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.