Wolfgang Kluxen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Kluxen (born October 31, 1922 in Bensberg ; † May 12, 2007 in Bonn ) was a German philosopher and university professor . His specialties were the philosophy of the Middle Ages , especially Thomas Aquinas , and ethics .

Wolfgang Kluxen. Signature 1974

Life

Wolfgang Kluxen grew up as the son of the middle school teacher Heinrich Kluxen and his wife Anna Witter. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the universities of Bonn and Cologne , where he met with a thesis on the Latin translations of the works of medieval 1,951 Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides at Josef Koch , the founder of the Cologne Thomas Institute , received his doctorate .

From 1953 to 1958 he worked as an assistant at the Thomas Institute, where, among other things, he was responsible for setting up the research library there. He then moved to the Belgian Institute superieur de la philosophie at the Catholic University of Leuven as part of a research grant . In 1960 Kluxen took on a visiting professorship at the Catholic Villanova University in Philadelphia , USA.

1962 Kluxen professor of philosophy in Neuss Department of Teacher Education Rheinland and took 1964 the reputation of a full professorship at the Ruhr-University Bochum in. In 1969 he moved to the University of Bonn as professor of philosophy, where he was also dean of the philosophy faculty from 1976 to 1977. As a visiting professor, he also taught at times in Argentina at the University of Córdoba , in Japan at the University of Tokyo and in Leuven, Belgium. In 1988 he retired .

Kluxen last lived in Bonn and was buried in Bonn's old cemetery . Since 1950 he was a member of the Catholic student union K.D.St.V Rheno-Baltia Cologne in the CV .

Kluxen was a younger brother of the historian Kurt Kluxen (1911-2003).

Act

Wolfgang Kluxen is an expert on the life and work of Thomas Aquinas ; his book on the philosophical ethics of Thomas became an international standard work. He also published editions of important Latin texts of metaphysics , such as Thomas Aquinas and Johannes Duns Scotus , with commentary and German translation. In numerous of his essays, Kluxen dealt with concrete ethical questions in different areas of life (from genetic engineering to law and economy to religion and art) and, according to Andreas Speer, is one of the pioneers of applied ethics in Germany.

Kluxen was a member of various scientific organizations, including from 1975 the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , for which, as chairman of the Averroes-Latinus Commission, he was responsible for the Latin edition of the writings of Averroes . At the Görres Society , until shortly before his death, he was the lead editor of the series of publications, Contributions to the History of Philosophy and Theology of the Middle Ages, founded by Clemens Baeumker .

From 1972 to 1982 Kluxen was President (and since then Honorary President) of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM) , which he co-founded in 1958 , and from 1978 to 1984 President of the General Society for Philosophy in Germany . During this time, the 16th World Congress of Philosophy of the Féderation Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophy (FISP) took place in Düsseldorf on his initiative in 1978 . Kluxen was a member of the FISP Board of Directors from 1988 to 1998.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Philosophical ethics in Thomas Aquinas. Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1964 ( Walberberg Studies of the Albertus Magnus Academy. Philosophical Series , Volume 2.)
  • Ethics of ethos. Alber-Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 1974 ( Fermenta philosophica ), ISBN 3-495-47301-7 .
  • Youth and society. Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-920007-81-6 .
  • Perspectives in business ethics. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, G 353), ISBN 3-531-07353-2 .
  • Basic problems of an affirmative ethic. Universalistic reflection and experience of the ethos. Alber-Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-495-48228-5 .
Text editions and translations
  • Johannes Duns Scotus : Tractatus de primo principio. Treatise on the first principle. Edited, translated and commented by Wolfgang Kluxen. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-534-00532-5 ; 4th expanded edition ibid. 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-22703-7 .
  • Thomas Aquinas: De ente et essentia. About beings and beings. Ed., Translated and introduced by Wolfgang Kluxen. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2007 (Herder's Library of the Philosophy of the Middle Ages, Volume 7), ISBN 978-3-451-28689-6 .
Editorships
  • Thomas Aquinas in a philosophical conversation. Alber-Verlag, Freiburg / Munich 1975 (Alber brochure philosophy), ISBN 3-495-47314-9 .
  • Language and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. Files of the VI. International Congress for Medieval Philosophy of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 29 August - 3 September 1977 in Bonn. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1981 ( Miscellanea Mediaevalia , volumes 13.1 / 13.2), ISBN 3-11-008161-X .
  • Tradition and innovation. XIII. German Congress for Philosophy, Bonn, September 24-29, 1984. Meiner-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-7873-0735-4 .
Collected Essays

literature

  • Jürgen Fohrmann (Ed.): In memoriam Wolfgang Kluxen (October 31, 1922 - May 12, 2007). Speeches held at the academic commemoration on July 11, 2008 in the ballroom of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2009. ISBN 978-3-416-03260-5 .
  • Ludger Honnefelder : Epilogue to Wolfgang Kluxen. In: Yearbook of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , vol. 2008, pp. 138–143.
  • Andreas Speer : In memoriam Wolfgang Kluxen. In: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale , Volume 49, 2007, pp. V – XI.
  • Georg Wieland : Reason, Nature, History. Wolfgang Kluxen on his 80th birthday. In: The Political Opinion. Monthly magazine on questions of time , Volume 395, 2002, pp. 83-85. (also online (PDF) on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website.)
  • Wilhelm Korff : Ethics and History. Wolfgang Kluxen's research on ethics, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 89 (1982) 411-423.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Autobiographical notes with Wolfgang Kluxen: 50 years of the Thomas Institute. Remembering the beginning. In: Jan A. Aertsen (Ed.): End and completion. Eschatological Perspectives in the Middle Ages. , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002 ( Miscellanea Mediaevalia , Volume 29), ISBN 3-11-017214-3 , pp. 21-28.
  2. ^ Andreas Speer : In memoriam Wolfgang Kluxen. In: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale , Volume 49, 2007, pp. V – XI, here p. VIII.
  3. ^ Andreas Speer : In memoriam Wolfgang Kluxen. In: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale , Volume 49, 2007, pp. V – XI, citation p. IX.
personal data
SURNAME Kluxen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg near Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2007
Place of death Bonn