- Academic degrees,
and positions held:
- 1970/71 university
degrees ("Staatsexamen") in philosophy, mathematics, and German studies
- 1976 PhD
- 1985 habilitation
degree in philosophy
- 1971-79 senior
high school teacher
- 1979-1993 (with
interruptions) German Academic Exchange Lecturer, Associate Professor, and/or
Guest Professor of German studies, and philosophy in Japan and in the PR
of China.
- Since 1993:
apl. Professor of Philosophy, Academic Advisor to the Japanese Culture Center
in Düsseldorf
- Since 1998:
President of the German China Association
- 1999-2000:
Director of the Euro-Asian Academy of Culture and Economics in Achern
- Since 2003:
Participation in the project
"The Book of Mencius
and the Human Rights Issue"
at Bochum University
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- Main English publications:
- Philosophical Theories
of Beauty and Scientific Research on the Brain. Beauty and the
Brain, ed. I. Rentschler (Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1989)
- Aspects of Confucianism
(München: Peter Lang, 1990)
- Equivalent Axioms of
Aristotelian, or Traditional European, and Later Mohist Logic:
An Argument in Favor of the Universality of Logic and
Rationality. Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese
Philosophy, ed. H. Lenk and G. Paul (SUNY, 1993)
- Reflections on the
tertium non datur: theories and applications in Chinese and
European philosophies. Democracy in Asia, ed. M. Schmiegelow
(New York: St Martin's Press, 1997).
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Co-editor
of:
- Hôrin:
Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur/Comparative Studies in Japanese
Culture
- Buddhismus-Studien/Buddhist
Studies
-
Mitteilungsblatt der DCG/Bulletin of the German China Association
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