Christoph Lütge
Christoph Lütge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Ordnungsethik |
Main interests | Business Ethics Philosophy of science Political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Order Ethics |
Christoph Lütge (born 1969) is a German business ethicist notable for his work on his work on Order Ethics. He is the Peter Löscher Professor for Business Ethics and Philosophy and Economics at the Technische Universität München, Bavaria, Germanz.[1]
Academic Career
After studying philosophy and business informatics in Braunschweig, Göttingen and Paris, Lütge was a PhD student at the Technical University of Berlin and Braunschweig University of Technology from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, he received his doctorate and was a research assistant. From 2004, Lütge was an Assistant Professor at the faculty of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Lütge habilitated in 2005 in Munich. Christoph Lütge was a deputy professor at the Witten/Herdecke University from 2007 to 2008 and at the Braunschweig University of Technology from 2008 to 2010. In 2007 he received Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation. Since August 2010 he has held the newly created Peter Löscher Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich.
Philosophy
Order Ethics
In his work on business ethics, Luetge advocates a contractarian approach termed „order ethics“. This approach focuses on the institutional and order framework of a society and its economy. Both formal and informal order elements are analyzed in order ethics, which especially highlights the relation of competition and ethics and reaches out into thematic fields such as Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity. In his work on political philosophy, „Order Ethics or Moral Surplus: What Holds a Society Together?“, Luetge takes on a fundamental problem of contemporary political philosophy and ethics. He questions the often implicit assumption of many contemporary political philosophers according to which a society needs its citizens to adopt some shared basic qualities, views or capabilities (here termed a moral surplus). Luetge examines the respective theories of, among others, Habermas, Rawls, Gauthier, Buchanan, and Binmore with a focus on their respective moral surpluses. He finds that each moral surplus is either not necessary for the stability of societies or cannot remain stable when faced with opposing incentives. Binmore’s idea of empathy is the only one that is, at least partly, not confronted with this dilemma. Luetge provides an alternative view termed "order ethics", which weakens the necessary assumptions for modern societies and basically only relies on mutual advantages as the fundamental basis of society.
Experimental Ethics
Luetge and his team have established the „Experimental Ethics Lab“ (EEL) at Technische Universität München, in which ethically relevant behavior of real human subjects is analyzed within a controlled decision framework. These experiments are performed on a variety of different topics such as microcredit lending, compliance and whistle blowing or cheating behavior.
Distinctions and Awards
entnehmen aus der Datei CV and Publications, ergänzen um „Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation“, 2007
Academic Bodies Reviewer
Member of the Senate and the Advisory Council of the Bavarian School of Public Policy, Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF), Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility of Leeds Metropolitan University, Vice chairman of the audit committee of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association, Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Bibliography
- Order Ethics or Moral Surplus: What Holds a Society Together?, Lanham: Lexington 2015.
- Order Ethics: An Ethical Framework for the Social Market Economy, Heidelberg: Springer 2015(forthc.).
- Experimental Ethics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014, (ed., with H. Rusch and M. Uhl).
- Ethik des Wettbewerbs: Über Konkurrenz und Moral. München: Beck 2014, ISBN 978-3406669644.
- Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Heidelberg/New York: Springer 2014 (Hrsg.), ISBN 978-94-007-1495-3.
- Wirtschaftsethik ohne Illusionen: Ordnungstheoretische Reflexionen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-151782-2.
- Entscheidung und Urteil. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 2009 (mit Helmut Jungermann), ISBN 978-3-525-40419-5.
- Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Aldershot/London: Ashgate 2008 (hrsg. mit Jesus Conill und Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze), ISBN 978-0-7546-7383-5.
- Was hält eine Gesellschaft zusammen? Ethik im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149408-6.
- Einführung in die Wirtschaftsethik. 3., überarb. Aufl., Münster: LIT 2013 (mit Karl Homann), ISBN 978-3-8258-7758-3.
- Ökonomische Wissenschaftstheorie. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2001, ISBN 978-3-8260-2017-9.