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Professor Bernhard Bleyer

Professor Bernhard Bleyer has been with the Chair of Theological Ethics at the University of Passau since 2021. He heads the master's programme in Charity Studies and Values-Based Management as well as the Institute for Applied Ethics in Business and Education. After obtaining his doctorate in moral theology at the University of Regensburg in 2007 he went on to helm the Institute for Sustainability and Ethics at East Bavarian Technical University Amberg-Weiden. He then transferred to the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, joining the Professorship of Applied Ethics and Sustainable Development in Health Science. In 2019, he completed his habilitation at the Catholic Private University Linz.

Professor Bernhard Bleyer has been with the Chair of Theological Ethics at the University of Passau since 2021. He heads the master's programme in Charity Studies and Values-Based Management as well as the Institute for Applied Ethics in Business and Education. After obtaining his doctorate in moral theology at the University of Regensburg in 2007 he went on to helm the Institute for Sustainability and Ethics at East Bavarian Technical University Amberg-Weiden. He then transferred to the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, joining the Professorship of Applied Ethics and Sustainable Development in Health Science. In 2019, he completed his habilitation at the Catholic Private University Linz.

"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."

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Professor Bernhard Bleyer researches the methodology of Catholic-theological ethics, the identity of Christian charity in a society of plurality, and normative issues of sustainable development

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