Alfred Castile

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Alfred Kastil (born May 12, 1874 in Graz ; † July 20, 1950 in Schönbühel on the Danube ) was an Austrian philosopher and university professor.

Life

Kastil was born the son of Alois Kastil. He attended a school in Brno and obtained his Matura in 1892. He then studied law up to the first state examination and philosophy at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. His main philosophical teacher was Anton Marty , with whom he received his doctorate in 1898 with the dissertation " Principles of Aristotelian Ethics ". Castil also completed his habilitation under Marty in 1901 with the habilitation thesis " On the doctrine of free will in the Nicomachean ethics ". In the following year he was appointed private lecturer at the German Karl Ferdinand University and in 1909 as associate professor at the University of Innsbruck , where u. a. Franz Hillebrand was one of his colleagues. In 1912, Castile was given a full professorship.

In the 1920s, Alfred Kastil co-founded the first Franz Brentano archive, which he enlisted his assistant Ernst Foradori to manage.

After Castile's philosophical work had concentrated on questions of ethics during his doctorate and habilitation, he later turned to epistemology .

In 1934, Kastil retired from the University of Innsbruck and then devoted himself to his work on an edition of Brentano's works. Castil’s doctoral and post-doctoral candidates include Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand and Simon Moser .

Alfred Kastil died in 1950 in Schönbühel on the Danube.

Publications

  • Principles of Aristotelian Ethics , 1898, dissertation.
  • The question of the knowledge of the good in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas , 1900.
  • On the doctrine of free will in Nicomachean ethics , 1901, habilitation thesis.
  • Studies on modern epistemology, I. Descartes , 1909.
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries ' doctrine of immediate knowledge; a review of his reform of Kant's theoretical philosophy , 1912.
  • Ontological and Gnoseological Concept of Truth , 1934.
  • Franz Brentano's theory of categories , 1934.
  • View of time and concepts of time in natural science and metaphysics . Treatises to commemorate the 100th birthday of Franz Brentano, 1938/39.
  • Truth and Being , 1946/47.
  • Franz Brentano's philosophy , posthumously 1951.

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personal data
SURNAME Castile, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1950
Place of death Schönbühel on the Danube