Alfred Schöpf

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Alfred Schöpf (born April 10, 1938 in Munich ; † October 6, 2018 ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Schöpf studied philosophy, education, Latin philology and Catholic theology at the University of Munich . In 1965 he did his doctorate with Helmut Kuhn on The Justification of Knowledge with Augustin as Dr. phil. The Aachen philosopher Helmut Achilles praised "the clarity and conciseness of the work, with which it stands out from the wealth of Augustine literature."

Since 1977 he has been a full professor of philosophy at the University of Würzburg . Augustine and Sigmund Freud were among his main research interests . From 1986 he was also a psychoanalyst. He was one of the four authors of the Lexicon of Ethics published by Otfried Höffe . In 2004 he retired .

Schöpf's students include the Catholic moral theologian Peter Fonk , Peter Prechtl (1948–2007), editor of the Metzler Lexicon Philosophy , and Petra Herkert, Professor of Psychology and Management at Furtwangen University.

Works (selection)

  • Sigmund Freud . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08502-4 . - Extended reprint: Sigmund Freud and the philosophy of the present . Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-8260-1422-7 .
  • Philosophical anthropology, social anthropology and cultural anthropology. In: Leo Roth (Ed.): Pedagogy. Manual for study and practice . Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-431-03024-6 , pp. 87-98.
  • Unconscious communication. The internal discourse of conscience and the external of society . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85165-485-4 .
  • The return of vengeance. A hermeneutic of power . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3061-3 .
  • Philosophical foundations of psychoanalysis. An analysis of the history of science and the theory of science . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-022272-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Professor Alfred Schöpf (April 10, 1938 - October 6, 2018) , Institute for Philosophy at the University of Würzburg
  2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 73 (1966) 383.
personal data
SURNAME Schöpf, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2018