50 years of Berchmanskolleg.

The Munich School of Philosophy (HFPH) is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Munich's Kaulbachstrasse this year. At a keynote speech the Potsdam climate researcher Ottmar Edenhofer pleaded for the creation of a European Central Climate Bank (ECCB) to advance emissions trading. According to him, politics cannot solve the climate problem without new institutions. The ECCB should issue certificates in the future and ensure a stable development of the CO2 price. This could break the strategic restraint of investors.

The ECCB should be flanked by the establishment of a long-term investment fund that pre-finances technologies such as negative emissions and synthetic fuels for a limited period of time, Edenhofer said. Governments and parliaments must be relieved of technocratic issues, he justified his proposal. This would require a social learning process.

It is necessary not only to formulate distant climate goals, but also to find feasible ways to achieve them, the researcher said. Science can provide an infrastructure for this and help distinguish good from bad compromises. However, it should leave negotiation processes and finding majorities to politics and not commit itself to a certain path. The climate economist is a graduate of the HFPH.

"We need philosophical impulses and advice," emphasised the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, in his welcome address on behalf of the Bavarian state government. Especially in the day-to-day decisions, he said, politics should not lose sight of thinking about the foundations of living together and the principles and long-term perspectives.

HFPH President Johannes Wallacher announced a more in-depth treatment of philosophical, ethical and social science questions in connection with the development of artificial intelligence. To this end, he said, his university will soon establish a joint centre with the University of Augsburg and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). A new professorship for philosophy of science, natural philosophy and philosophy of technology with a focus on artificial intelligence, financed by the Free State of Bavaria, has just been filled at the HFPH. The Karlsruhe researcher Benjamin Rathgeber received the call.

1549. Christian Rutishauser SJ, Delegate of the Central European Province for Higher Education, called the "daring project" of moving the Order's educational institution from Pullach to Kaulbachstrasse in Munich in November 1971 a success. Teaching a philosophy that reflects social processes and lays solid systematic foundations is the brand profile of the HFPH, he said. "Transformative knowledge and critical thinking are in demand." With its own character in the Bavarian university landscape, the university wants to create added value, he said. In this context, he recalled the prehistory of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, which had been founded in Ingolstadt, where St. Petrus Canisius, whose 500th birthday is celebrated this year, had already been active from 1549. The Munich School of Philosophy sees itself in this tradition of Christian humanism.

Formation Centre Munich

The university also functions as an international place of study for Jesuits studying philosophy who are in the phase between first and second vows in their religious life. These so-called scholastics form a small but important part of the student body. They live in the training community "Aloisius Gonzaga" and study philosophy at the HFPH. https://formation-center.jesuiten.org/