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Ursula Wolf

b. 1951

German philosopher and writer

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Born 1951. Ursula Wolf is a German writer, philosopher and university teacher.

Ursula Wolf (born 4 November 1951 in Karlsruhe) is a German philosophy professor and a writer.

Biography She has been philosophy teacher at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Frankfurt, and, now, at the University of Mannheim, where she holds a full professorship in that specialty.

In some of her work, Ursula Wolf argues for animal rights. Talking about animal testing, she argues that the fact that something can be useful for human beings or that is legal doesn't make it ethically right. She also criticizes the German Animal Protection Law that according to her has double standards because it says on the one hand that humans have moral obligations towards nonhuman animals, and on the other that these obligations disappear when it comes to investigation using animals.

Selected works Das Tier in der Moral. Vittorio Klosterman, 1990 Platons Frühdialoge. Rowohlt, 1996 Die Philosophie und die Frage nach dem guten Leben. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999,

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Important facts

Born
1951, Karlsruhe
Birth century
Nationality
Education
Heidelberg University
Employers
University of Mannheim, Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt
Awards
Meyer-Struckmann Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Ursula Wolf's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ursula Wolf?

German philosopher and writer

When was Ursula Wolf born?

Ursula Wolf was born in 1951 in Karlsruhe.

What is Ursula Wolf's occupation?

Ursula Wolf is a writer, philosopher and university teacher.

What nationality is Ursula Wolf?

Ursula Wolf is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ursula Wolf

· Wikidata: Q86713

· DBpedia: Ursula Wolf

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