Reinhart Klemens Maurer (born 1935) is a

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

and professor from Xanten, Germany. Maurer studied philosophy, German and English at the universities of Münster, Kiel and Vienna. In 1964, he made his Ph.D. Maurer later wrote his post-doctoral research (''Habilitation'') in 1969 at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

under the supervision of

Robert Spaemann Robert Spaemann (5 May 1927 – 10 December 2018) was a German Catholic philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School. Spaemann's focus was on Christian ethics. He was known for his work in bioethics, ecology, and human rights. Al ...

. Between 1962 and 1975, he was a research assistant and then a lecturer at the ''Institute for Philosophy and Pedagogy'' at the

and from 1975 to 1997, he served as a professor at the Institute for Philosophy (Institut für Philosophie) at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin). Maurer was influenced by Ritter's concept of a practical philosophy that challenges concrete problems, in the tradition of the ancient European and the classical philosophy. This was his approach in his works about Plato, Hobbes,

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

Habermas Habermas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German sociologist and philosopher * Rebekka Habermas (born 1959), German historian *Gary Habermas Gary Robert Habermas (born 1950) is an American ...

and the

critical theory A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from soci ...

. He applies critical theory on the modern, techno-democratic worldview, and ties it with fundamental critique on the modern society ( Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arnold Gehlen and Gómez Dávila).

Publications (in German)

* ''Hegel und das Ende der Geschichte'', Stuttgart 1965, 2nd enlarged edition, Freiburg 1980. * ''Platons „Staat“ und die Demokratie. Historisch-systematische Überlegungen zur Politischen Ethik'', Berlin 1970. * ''Revolution und „Kehre“. Studien zum Problem gesellschaftlicher Naturbeherrschung'', Frankfurt a. M. 1975. * ''Jürgen Habermas' Aufhebung der Philosophie'', Tübingen 1977. * ''Joachim Ritters Praktische Philosophie. In: Mark Schweda, Ulrich von Bülow (eds.): Entzweite Moderne. Zur Aktualität Joachim Ritters und seiner Schüler'', Göttingen 2017, 63-84. * ''Joachim Ritter und die Philosophie der Nachkriegszeit. In: Information Philosophie 4/2018'', 30-41.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maurer, Reinhart 1935 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers People from Xanten People from the Rhine Province German male writers