- 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
- 2003-2005 Participation in the
project "The Book
of Mencius and
the Human Rights Issue" at Bochum University
- 2005-2006
Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto
University (Japan)
- August
2011-October 2011 Research Fellow at the
Lumbini International Research Institute
(Nepal)
- 2012-2013
Participation in the project "The Universality
of Gomyo's (a Japanese Buddhist scholar,
8th-9th century) Theory of Logic"
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- Some
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).
- Together with Hans Lenk: "Logic and
Culture [...]", in: Mitteilungsblatt [der
DCG], 2009, pp. 42-58.
- Confucian notions of Criticism: An
Important Contribution to a Valid Theory of
Humaneness. In: TENG Wensheng und SHAN Chun, ed.,
Confucianism and Its Current Missions, Beijing:
Jizhou Press, 2010, vol. 4, pp. 194-213.
- "The Notion of Human Dignity in
Intercultural Context." In: Mitteilungsblatt
[der DCG], 2011, pp. 57-61.
- "China and Religious Diversity: Some
Critical Reflections". In: Religious Diversity
in Chinese Thought, hg. von Perry
Schmidt-Leukel und Joachim Gentz, New York:
Palgrave Macmillan 2013, S. 39-50.
- "The Notion of Human Dignity in
Intercultural Context". In: Path to World
Harmony, Beijing: Xinhua 2012. ISBN:
978-7-5166-0232-4.
- "Kūkai's 空海 (774-835) Philosophy of
Language." In: Philosophica N. 39-40,
2011, Instituto de Filosofia, Pontificia
Universida Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso
2013, S. 143-165.
- "Confucian Universalism as a Driving
Force of Humanity: The Timeless Lesson of Japanese
Confucianism." In: Confucianism in
Intercultural Perspectives: Modern Developments.
Papers from the Forth International Conference
of Sincology. Taipei: Academia Sinica,
2013.
- "Logic in the Book of Mencius".
In: New Perspectives of Mencius Studies, Beijing.
- Dignāgean Logic: Its
character as term logic and
its specific way of formulating universally
valid logical laws.
In: Logic in Buddhist
Scholasticism, ed. Gregor Paul, Lumbini
(NEPAL): LIRI 2015, S. 243-254.
- Methodology forever and again.
In: Logic in Buddhist
Scholasticism, ed. Gregor Paul, Lumbini
(NEPAL): LIRI 2015, S. 11-30.
- History of Logic in China: 5
Questions. In: History of Logic in China: 5
Questions, hg. von Fenrong Liu & Jeremy
Seligman, Automatic Press/VIP 2015,
ISBN-10/87-92130-54-2, S. 187-191.
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Co-editor of several
academical journals
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