Paul J.M. van Tongeren (* 1950, Deventer, The Netherlands) studied
theology in Utrecht and philosophy in Louvain (Belgium). He got his Ph.D. also
from the Superior Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Louvain
(1984). His doctoral dissertation was on Nietzsche's Critique of Morality. He
was assistant professor for moral philosophy at the Catholic University of Nymegen
(The Netherlands) from 1978, was 'special professor of philosophy' at the State
University of Leiden from 1985 till 1990, and is at the moment at the Catholic
University of Nymegen professor for moral philosophy (since 1987). He was chairman
of the Center of Ethics of the university, CEKUN (1993 - 1998). From 1989 until
1994 he was dean of the faculty of philosophy. In 1995 he was fellow in residence
of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies of the Royal Dutch Acadamy
of Sciences, and visiting professor at the philosophy department of BYU (Provo,
Utah, USA). In 1996 he was a member of the committee that evaluated the departments
of philosophy of the flemish universities.
His publications are on Nietzsche, on Aristotle, on the Stoics,
and on some issues from the actual debate in ethics (the distinction between
morality in the broad and morality in the narrow sense; the relation between
politics and ethics; methodological reflections on a hermeneutic ethics). Most
of his publications are in the field of ethics or of the history of philosophy;
some in the field of philosophy of religion.
He is a member of the editorial board of several national and international
journals of philosophy and of theology; he is editor in chief of a series, entitled
“Morality and the Meaning of Life”, and of a series of publications
of the Dutch association of christian intellectuals (Annalen van het Thijmgenootschap).
Since 1999 he is a member of the International Academic Advisory Committee,
of St. Augustine College of South Africa, Johannesburg. He is supervising a
project for the establishment of a dictionary to Nietzsche’s writings (since
1998), and he is a member of the Scientific Commitee of Hyper-Nietzsche (since
2001).
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