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Konrad Ott

Konrad Ott is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Konrad Ott rather than just read about it. In short: Konrad Ott (born 20 May 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics. Biography Konrad Ott was born in 1959 in Bergkamen, West Germany.

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Reference excerpt

Konrad Ott (born 20 May 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics.

Biography Konrad Ott was born in 1959 in Bergkamen, West Germany. From 1982 to 1986, he studied philosophy, history and German philology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He completed his PhD thesis on Menschenkenntnis als Wissenschaft. Über die Entstehung und Logik der Historie als der Wissenschaft vom Individuellen under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas at the same institution in 1989. He is regarded as a representative of the Frankfurt School's third generation. Ott is currently Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. From 1997 to 2012 Ott was professor for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald. Ott is also known as a critic of mass migration to Europe. Regarding migration from Africa via the Mediterranean, Ott postulated in 2018 that "this route must be dried out"; the merit of Italy's Home Office Secretary Matteo Salvini should be acknowledged "at least [...] to have made this route less attractive".

Bibliography In German:

Ökologie und Ethik: Ein Versuch praktischer Philosophie. Tübingen 1993 Vom Begründen zum Handeln: Aufsätze zur angewandten Ethik. Tübingen 1996 Ipso facto: Zur ethischen Begründung normativer Implikate wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Frankfurt am Main 1997 Ethik in der Informatik. Tübingen 1999 (as co-editor) Spektrum der Umweltethik. Marburg 2000 (as co-editor) Moralbegründungen zur Einführung. Hamburg 2001; Zweite Auflage 2005 Theorie und Praxis starker Nachhaltigkeit. Marburg 2004; Zweite Auflage 2008 (as co-author) Umweltethik zur Einführung. Hamburg 2010 Zuwanderung und Moral. Stuttgart 2016 Naturethik und biblische Schöpfungserzählung. Ein diskurstheoretischer und narrativ-hermeneutischer Brückenschlag. (Together with Christof Hardmeier.) Stuttgart 2015 Umweltethik. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.68742 In English:

The Case for Strong Sustainability Building a 'theory of sustainable development': two salient conceptions within the German discourse (as co-author) On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability Environmental Ethics. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.71420

External links Universität Greifswald - Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie: Professur für Umweltethik Professorship for Environmental Ethics at the University of Greifswald, Germany International Masters Programme "Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation"

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Konrad Ott

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Konrad Ott ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Konrad Ott

In research: Konrad Ott appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Konrad Ott in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Konrad Ott is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1959 births, 20th-century German male writers, 20th-century German philosophers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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What is Konrad Ott in simple terms?

Konrad Ott (born 20 May 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics. Biography Konrad Ott was born in 1959 in Bergkamen, West Germany.

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