Evolution and Theology of Cooperation

On 19 April 2006, The ETC Project Presents

Self-Interest, Morality, and Cooperation

by Friedrich Lohmann, PhD, University of Tübingen

Friedrich Lohmann, PhD, is a theologian teaching at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His teaching and writing covers various topics in ethics, dogmatics, and the philosophy of religion. His highly acclaimed dissertation thesis investigated influences of modern philosophy, especially neo-kantianism, on Karl Barth's theology. The second book, the post-dissertation thesis, was dedicated to questions regarding the foundation of Christian ethics in relation to the classical notion of natural law and the debate on universalization in current philosophical ethics. Topics treated in essays and book chapters include, e.g., the theology of creation, leisure time, and the epistemology of Jean-Luc Marion.

Friedrich Lohmann spent the academic year 2004/05 as a member-in-residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton. This stay was part of a broader research project on the relationship between morality and self interest, enabled by a grant of the German National Research Foundation. In his Harvard lecture, Friedrich Lohmann summarizes some of the results of his current research, with a special regard to the question of human collaboration.

This presentation is the fifth in a series of lectures sponsored by the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project at Harvard University, directed by Professors Sarah Coakley and Martin Nowak and supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

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