Philosophy Teacher, Collège St-Michel, Fribourg (Switzerland)
see also my website: christianmaurerphilosophy.wordpress.com
Former SNSF Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
SNSF Research projects:
• Tolerance, Intolerance and Discrimination Regarding Religion (2016-2021);
• The Metaphor of Vision in Tolerance (renounced for the permanent position at the Collège St-Michel)
Coming soon: The critical edition, with Knud Haakonssen, of Francis Hutcheson’s A System of Moral Philosophy, 1755 (Liberty Fund)
Book:
Self-love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis –
EUP 2019 // US: OUP site
Reviews in: Intellectual History Review, by James Harris; in Journal of Scottish Philosophy, by Erin Frykholm; in Journal of the History of Philosophy, by Aaron Garrett; in Journal for the History of Economic Thought, by Benoît Walraevens
My main research interests in Ethics and Political Philosophy:
- Contemporary debates on tolerance / toleration; discrimination; forgiveness and love / virtue ethics
- Early modern moral philosophy, political philosophy and theology
- Early modern debates on tolerance and toleration
- Debates on self-love, amour-propre and egoism in early modern Europe
- Scottish moral philosophy and theology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- The reception of Stoicism in early modern Europe
- Teaching methods in philosophy, questions of interdisciplinarity
- Translating and editing source material, e.g. Latin manuscripts and letters
- Individual philosophers, e.g.: Archibald Campbell, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson
Institutional address:
Christian Maurer
Collège St-Michel
Rue St-Pierre-Camisius 10
CH–1700 Fribourg
Suisse / Switzerland
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