Saya mau tau Penghargaan dari Hans-Georg Gadamer

1971: Pour le Mérite dan

1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1979: Sigmund Freud Prize untuk prosa ilmiah dan Hegel Prize

1990: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1993: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

12 Januari 1996: ditunjuk sebagai anggota kehormatan Saxon Academy of Sciences di Leipzig