A native of Detmold, Germany, Dr. Vorwerk’s academic expertise is in ancient philosophy,
the works of Plato and Plotinus, and the philosophy of human nature. In 1998, he received
他的Ph值.D. from the University of Münster after completion of a dissertation on the
Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus. He then received a fellowship of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation to complete post-doctoral work at University College Dublin and
Trinity College Dublin. He joined the faculty of the Catholic University of America
in 2003 as an assistant professor of philosophy, and in 2011 was appointed as associate
dean of the School of 哲学. In this capacity, he oversaw the extensive undergraduate
operations of the school, including the formation of college seminarians, and served
as inaugural co-chair of Catholic University’s General Education Curriculum Committee,
which developed a new liberal arts curriculum that was successfully implemented in
2018. He joined the University of Dallas, as provost and professor of philosophy, in 2022.
Dr. Vorwerk has written or co-authored four books in German on Plotinus and the history of Platonism, published numerous articles and papers for academic publications and conferences, and is a member of the Board of Directors of American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. He is married with three children.
Ancient 哲学哲学 of Human NaturePh.D., Greek 和Latin Philology and 哲学, University of Münster, 1998
B.A., Greek 和Latin Philology (“Staatsexamen”), University of Münster, 1994
Plotins Schrift ‘Über den Geist, die Ideen und das Seiende (Enneade V 9 [5]). Text, translation, commentary. Beitrge zur Altertumskunde 145. Munich Leipzig: Saur, 2001.
In Pursuit of “Wissenschaft.” Festschrift in Honor of William M. Calder III, On the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. 编辑:St. Heilen R. Kirstein R. Scott Smith, St. Trzaskoma R. 范德沃尔， 和M. Vorwerk. Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York: Olms, 2008.
Baltes, M. DIANOHMATA. Kleine Schriften zu Platon und zum Platonismus. 编辑:A. Hffmeier, M.-L. 拉克曼和M. Vorwerk. Beitrge zur Altertumskunde 123. Stuttgart 和Leipzig: Teubner, 1999.
Der Platonismus in der Antike. Grundlagen – System – Entwicklung. Index zu den Bänden 1–4. 编译:M. Baltes in collaboration with A. Hffmeier, M.-L. 拉克曼和M. Vorwerk. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1997.
Plotinus and the Parmenides: Problems of Interpretation. In Plato's Parmenides and 它的文化遗产. 卷. 2, Its Reception in Neoplatonic, Jewish, and Christian Texts, edited 通过K. 科里根和J. Turner 23-33. Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature, 2010.
创造者还是父亲? The Demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus. In One Book, The Whole Universe: Platos Timaeus Today, edited by R. 莫尔,79 - 100. Las Vegas, Zurich, and Athens: Parmenides
Publishing, 2010.
Der Arzt, der Koch und die Kinder: Rhetorik und Philosophie im Wettstreit. 在高尔吉斯 ——梅农. Selected Papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum, edited by M. 话务量 和L. Brisson. International Plato Studies 25, 297-302. St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2007.
Citizenship of the Heavenly Fatherland: A Platonist Alternative to the Stoic Concept of Cosmopolitanism. In Polis and Cosmopolis: Problems of a Global Era. 卷. 2、编辑 通过K. Boudouris, 230-40. Athens: Ionia Publications, 2003.
Zauber oder Argument? Die epoidoi muthoi in Platon, Nomoi X (903 A 10905 D 1). In Platos Laws: From Theory into Practice. Proceedings of the VI Symposium Platonicum. Selected papers,
S编辑. Scolnicov 和L. Brisson. International Plato Studies 15, 81-86. St. Augustin: Academia, 2003.
Mythos und Kosmos. Zur Topographie des Jenseits im ErMythos des Platonischen Staates.
Philologus 146 (2002): 46-64.
Plato on Virtue: Definitions of sophrosyne in Platos Charmides and in Plotinus, Enneads 1.2 (19). American Journal of Philology 122 (2001): 29-47.