Team > Jonas Franzen (MA)

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Chair of Philosophy II

I am a scientific employee (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) and a PhD candidate at Bayreuth University’s Department of Philosophy. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Bayreuth in “Philosophy & Economics” and a Master’s degree from Utrecht University in “Applied Ethics”.

Research

My research interest is in ethics and political philosophy, with a special focus on theories of (distributive) justice. I consider justice a key value underlying the design of political institution – figuratively speaking the glue that keeps a society together. Philosophy, in turn, is a powerful instrument to carve out the demands of justice in greater detail. Starting in winter 2018, I will pursue a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schüßler. I will inquire whether justice entails limits to the amount of good(s) that people can rightly claim and hold. Thus, I will try to complement the traditional focus of philosophy on society’s worst-off with a fresh perspective on those that are best-off. More specifically, I explore philosophical justifications for upper limits on financial resources, e.g. limits on income. My PhD project can be subsumed under a provocative question: Is it immoral to be rich?

Teaching

For my current and past courses, please see the P&E intranet.

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Chair of Philosophy II

Jonas Franzen (MA)
PhD Student

Office

Building GW II, room 01.19
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95447 Bayreuth

Postal address

Universität Bayreuth
Institut für Philosophie
95440 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4154
E-mail: Jonas.Franzen@uni-bayreuth.de