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I represent the subject of moral theology in all its breadth, both in its basic and applied areas. A particular focus is on moral psychology...
Moral psychology describes the psychological foundations of moral experience, judgment and action, their preconditions and their genesis, as well as their potentials.
It is necessary in order to connect the many normative questions with the realities of life affected by them, and to provide a moral-psychological foundation for our ethical vocabulary.
About the person
Curriculum Vitae
List of publications
Research portal of the University of Graz
You can obtain a comprehensive overview via the research portal.
Main research areas
Fundamental questions of philosophical and theological ethics, moral psychology, moral motivation, emotions in ethics, anthropology, questions of meaning, the proprium Christianum, metaethics.
All current issues of bioethics and medical ethics, ethics of ageing, ethics of Caritas, implementation of ethics structures in organizations, ethics consulting in healthcare, values and value conflicts, enhancement, medical psychology, ethics of spirituality, ethics didactics.
Academic lectures
Here you will find a selection of Ralf Lutz's academic lectures.
Third-party funded projects
- In 2013, an application was submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for a so-called "retreat week" on the topic of "Quality of life in medicine. Measurement, concept, consequences" in the amount of € 70,000.00 was approved. The retreat took place in July 2014 and the documentation of the results was published by Springer-Verlag.
- An extensive project application to the German ResearchFoundation (DFG ) within the framework of the "own position" funding ("Eigene Stelle", including funds for employees, publications, etc.) was approved in July 2016 - amounting to almost € 400,000.00.
- Further research proposals are in preparation.
Partnerships / Cooperations / Quicklinks
You can find a list here.
Memberships
- Many years of project support and involvement in ethics committees of the Diocesan Caritas Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart.
- Member of the Diocesan Ethics Forum (DEF) of the Diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart.
- Associate member of the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW/Tübingen).
- Member of the International Association for Moral Theology and Social Ethics since 2011.
Prices
The dissertation on moral theology was awarded the doctoral prize of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen in 2012.
Special qualifications
- Several years of training in university didactics (Baden-Württemberg certificate in university didactics)
- Several psychotherapeutic trainings (logotherapy, hypnotherapy, marriage, family and life counseling), many years of counseling-psychotherapeutic practice