Wetlesen, J.
| English Phonetics | Jon Wetlesen |
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| Sort Name | Wetlesen, Jon |
| Birth: | 1940/06/15 |
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| Website: | https://www.jonwetlesen.com/447451059 |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- University of Oslo
Biographical Information
Jon Wetlesen (born 15 June 1940 ) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. Wetlesen has especially worked with ethics, including animal welfare. [Jon received his PhD] in 1976 with the dissertation "The Sage and the Way: Spinoza 's Ethics of Freedom." He has written teaching compendiums for philosophy students (Practical Argumentation: An Introduction to Ethics and Lectures on the History of Ethics) and several books, including Self-Knowledge and Liberation: A Buddhist Perspective (1983, 2000), Ethical Thinking (1996) and Biocentric Moral Status: The Moral Status of Beings Who Are Not Persons; A Casuistic Argument (2005). He has translated and written an introduction to Master Eckhart's Becoming Who You Are in the series Thorleif Dahl's Cultural Library 2000, republished in the series World's Holy Scriptures 2008. (Source Accessed Jan 28, 2021)
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