Overview
- In a statement on its website, the Hochschule für Philosophie München said a heavily charged dispute over Sebastian Ostritsch’s views meant the planned academic discussion on proofs of God could no longer be ensured.
- University leaders concluded a safe event was not guaranteed under the circumstances and decided to cancel the lecture.
- The institution promised to review its procedures and to strengthen formats that make disagreement productive.
- Student protests preceded the decision, and earlier coverage described Ostritsch’s conservative Catholic positions as the central point of contention.
- Ostritsch delivered the talk at the Carlsbad Institute for Social Thought, and a circulating protest call had labeled him a “right-wing extremist fundamentalist,” Junge Freiheit reported.