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Lutz Geldsetzer (born February 28, 1937 in Minden ; † August 14, 2019 in Düsseldorf ) was a German philosopher .

He was co-founder and co-editor of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science , co-editor of the works of Jakob Friedrich Fries and from 1971 to 2002 professor of philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf.

Life

Lutz Geldsetzer graduated from high school in Alzey in 1956 . After studying philosophy and the subsidiary subjects sociology / anthropology and law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz doctorate he 1961 on the idea of teaching Jacob Wegelin Dr. phil. In 1961/62 postgraduate studies followed at the Sorbonne , Paris, as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , and in 1963 a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and a position as a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. From 1963 to 1967 he became a research assistant at the Philosophical Institute of the Medical Academy of that time and from 1964 worked in the same position for three years at the University of Düsseldorf. His habilitation for philosophy took place in 1967. He then received the post of an extraordinary professor of philosophy in Düsseldorf in 1969 and taught there from 1971 to 2002 as professor of philosophy and head of the research department for philosophy of science. Lutz Geldsetzer retired in 2002, but continued teaching at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf until shortly before his death.

Lutz Geldsetzer was married to Ute Machwirth, daughter of the booksellers Carl and Aenne Machwirth.

Act

In more than 30 years of teaching and research, Geldsetzer has mastered a wide range of philosophical topics, both in the field of the history of philosophy and in systematic philosophy, as a specialist in general (as Auguste Comte characterizes the philosopher ) . Extremely rare for philosophical teaching, it not only covered the entire history of philosophy from ancient times , the Middle Ages , modern times and the present , but also the basic and area disciplines of philosophy ( metaphysics , ontology , epistemology , practical philosophy , philosophical anthropology ). In addition, he dealt with the philosophy of other cultures, with Chinese philosophy being a focus.

Philosophically, Geldsetzer was attributed to idealism , trying to combine sensualistic elements, such as those found in George Berkeley , with the systematic tradition of German idealism . This is expressed, among other things, in his pyramidal logic from 1987, in which Geldsetzer tried to build the logic not on statements, but initially on terms that can be understood as structures with intensional content and extensional scope and represented in a clear pyramidal notation.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jakob Wegelin's theory of ideas. A contribution to the philosophical-political thinking of the German Enlightenment , Meisenheim am Glan, 1963.
  • The dogmatic hermeneutics of jurisprudence in Thibaut and its historical requirements , Düsseldorf, 1966.
  • Philosopher Gallery. Portraits and bibliographies of philosophers from the 11th to 17th centuries , Philosophia Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1967.
  • Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his hermeneutics , Düsseldorf, 1969.
  • General book and institutional studies for philosophy studies , Alber, Freiburg / Munich, 1971. ISBN 3-495-47211-8
  • Vorländer : History of Philosophy, Vol. III. 1st volume: Philosophy in the first half of the 19th century. Revision of Lutz Geldsetzer, Hamburg, 1975.
  • In Honorem. A bibliography of the philosophical festival publications and their contributions , Düsseldorf, 1975.
  • Bibliography of the International Congresses of Philosophy. Proceedings 1900-1978 , Munich: Saur, 1978.
  • Chinese-German Lexicon of Chinese Philosophy , Aalen, 1986.
  • Logic , Aalen, 1987.
  • Sino-German Lexicon of the Classics and Schools of Chinese Philosophy , Aalen, 1991.
  • Chinese-German Lexicon of Classical Chinese Philosophical Works . Translated from the Ci Hai by LG and Hong H.-D., Aalen, 1995.
  • The world of philosophers presented in verses , Reclam, Stuttgart, 1995. ISBN 3-15-009404-6

About Lutz Geldsetzer

  • History of ideas and philosophy of science, commemorative publication for Lutz Geldsetzer . Edited by R. Dodel, E. Seidel and L. Steindler, Cologne 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Prof. Dr. Lutz Geldsetzer: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .