Professor Hanno Sauer

Hanno Sauer is a philosopher and writer who teaches ethics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has written numerous academic articles and monographs and has given talks in various countries in Europe and North America. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers (2020), European Research Commission Starting Grant (2019). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality was shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Award ...See more

Hanno Sauer is a philosopher and writer who teaches ethics at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has written numerous academic articles and monographs and has given talks in various countries in Europe and North America. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Early Career Researchers (2020), European Research Commission Starting Grant (2019). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality was shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Award (2023), the Tractatus Prize for the best philosophical essay 2023, and became a DER SPIEGEL Bestseller. It is currently being translated into 16 languages and will appear in more than 20 countries. See less