Helmut Hofbauer

My name is Helmut Hofbauer, and I am currently living in Vienna, Austria. I have my own website - www.philohof.com - which is, mostly written in German. My philosophical passion is practical philosophy and ethics. (Please, understand that in the way that I do not accept the existence of theoretical philosophy because, after all, I am doing something, even if it is theoretical philosophy.) I am a phenomenologist who is not interested in phenomenology. For I am much more attracted to seeing and sensing (perceiving phenomena and ideas) than in thinking. Philosophy for me is an activity. That means that it is not a subject. In consequence this means that everybody who philosophizes is a philosopher, and that a professor of philosophy is not more of a philosopher than any ordinary man or woman. I have studied philosophy at the University of Vienna where I haven`t learned anything more about philosophy than what I, privately, have read for myself. In the meantime (2015), I have written 7 books and edited 2 more. Currently I feel the urge to write an 8th book because my education has made me write so much on what I do not think and do not want to think - and of what I want to free myself by writing about it - that only now I come to the point where I can slowly start to express what I am actually thinking. So, if you are looking for an example of what bad influence education can have on a human being, take me.