Ota Weinberger

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Ota Weinberger (born April 20, 1919 in Brno , † January 30, 2009 in Graz ) was a Czech legal philosopher and logician . From 1972 to 1989 Weinberger headed the Graz Institute for Legal Philosophy.

Life

Weinberger, who enjoyed a reputation in the professional world as a logician and legal theorist, became known beyond the academic framework as a political warning to a broad public. For a long time he suffered badly from the political conditions in his homeland. As a Jew, he was first persecuted by the National Socialists . He was initially unable to complete his law studies at Masaryk University in his hometown and spent four years in concentration camps . After the war , he finished his studies and entered the court service. As a democrat, he refused to join the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and was subsequently suppressed by those in power. Despite the most adverse circumstances, he managed to embark on a scientific career. In the meantime he had to work as a locksmith. During the Prague Spring in 1968 Weinberger stayed in Vienna at the World Congress of Philosophy and never returned to his homeland. Only after the collapse of communism was he rehabilitated in the Czech Republic. The University of Salzburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1993, and the Masaryk University in Brno in 2004. Weinberger died on January 30, 2009 after a long and serious illness.

Works

  • The debit sentence problem in modern logic. Publishing house of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1958.
  • Legal logic. Springer, Vienna / New York 1970; 2nd, revised and significantly expanded edition: Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989.
  • Studies on norm logic and legal informatics. J. Schweitzer, Berlin 1974.
  • With Johann Mokre : Philosophy of Law and Legislation. Springer, Vienna / New York 1976.
  • Logical Analysis in Jurisprudence. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979.
  • Norm theory as the basis of jurisprudence and ethics. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981.
  • With Neil MacCormick: Foundations of Institutional Legal Positivism. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985.
  • Logic, semantics, hermeneutics. Beck, Munich 1987.
  • Law, Institution and Legal Policy. Basics of legal theory and social philosophy. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1987.
  • With Werner Krawietz : Pure legal doctrine as reflected by its continuers and critics. Springer, Vienna / New York 1988.
  • Norm and institution. An introduction to the theory of law. Manz, Vienna 1988.
  • Morality and common sense. Contributions to ethics, the theory of justice and the logic of norms. Böhlau, Vienna 1992.
  • Alternative theory of action. At the same time an examination of Georg Henrik von Wright's practical philosophy. Böhlau, Vienna 1996.
  • From an intellectual conscience. Essays by Ota Weinberger on fundamental problems in law and democratic theory. Edited by M. Fischer, P. Koller, W. Krawietz. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000.
  • True Faith, Agnosticism, and Theological Argumentation. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ota Weinberger is dead . Kleine Zeitung , February 2, 2009, archived from the original on September 23, 2014 . ;.
personal data
SURNAME Weinberger, Ota
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech legal philosopher and logician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2009
Place of death Graz