Hans-Peter Kolb

Hans-Peter Kolb, born in 1951, is a psychological psychotherapist in his own office (www.kolb-hannover.de), and is concerned with philosophy for quite some time, and so, the relevance of philosophy for the therapeutic practice got into his mind by this. After a German diploma in mathematics in 1975 and one in psychology in 1982, he first worked in a clinic for addicts, and then turned to start his own office. After publishing his own analysis of being-there and some applications for philosophical, religious, sociological, and psychotherapeutic topics in seven books, all written in German, he began to translate his books into English. Up to now he finished the translation of two of them, the first dealing with nature and Neo-Darwinism, where he constructs a teleological comprehension of nature, the second dealing with psychotherapy, where in the beginning he describes his philosophical development and the influence of several philosophers on him. The issue in all of his books is the utopia of perfect love, which he first very abstractly defines as true and immediate understanding. Derived from this more practically you get that then you would never take anything for evil and would thus pardon everything. By this the question emerges how we can near this ideal state and make the world more and more human in a positive sense.