Professor Bernhard Bleyer

"I'm interested in the ways subjective convictions become acquired ethical knowledge. In other words, I aim to understand in what way rules of action immanently accepted in our lifeworld can be translated into justified ethical norms. For the moment, pragmatic linguistic theories interested in the analysis of language use in communication situations provide the most viable explanations for an entire string of questions. To my mind, researching a methodology of ethical justification processes is so essential because the subject of theological ethics in its fields of application come to bear in areas of science that attach immense importance to specific methodical standards and remind theological ethics that it has yet to declare its own."