Arno Anzenbacher

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Arno Anzenbacher (born February 14, 1940 in Bregenz ) is a retired professor of Christian anthropology and social ethics at the University of Mainz. His Introduction to Philosophy, first published in 1981, was widely used .

Life

Arno Anzenbacher studied philosophy and theology in Innsbruck and Freiburg (Switzerland). In 1964 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Freiburg, and in 1972 his habilitation in philosophy in Vienna . From 1981 to 2006 he was Professor of Christian Anthropology and Social Ethics in the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Mainz . In April 2010, Anzenbacher was honored with a festschrift for his 70th birthday at the University of Mainz.

Anzenbacher is one of the signatories of the Cologne Declaration (1989) and the Freedom Memorandum . In both documents, numerous professors of Catholic theology in the German-speaking area dealt critically with church politics in the Catholic Church.

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Arno Anzenbacher has given influential introductions (in philosophy, ethics and Christian social ethics) that have been translated into numerous languages ​​- especially into Eastern European languages, even before the political turning point of 1989. Anzenbacher had Catholic social ethics significantly influenced by his approach. The starting point of his approach is the modern law of reason or an ethic based on the autonomy of the person. However, he has tried to expand this liberal paradigm, on the one hand through an anthropological recourse (to certain unreliable conditions of being human) and on the other hand through (cautious) references to Christian beliefs. However, the separation of justice and the good life remained as untouched as the "fact of pluralism" (John Rawls) that characterizes modern societies.

Anzenbacher is one of the protagonists of the relecture of the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 20th century. Against the neo-scholastic-static - so-called "(neo) Thomistic" - interpretation of Thomas, he emphasizes the importance of human reason in Thomas (for example in the legal treaty of Summa theologiae I-II, 90-105): Man has the possibility through his reason the participation ( participatio ) in the natural law (in the lex naturalis ). The perception of this fact leads to an understanding of the Thomanian doctrine of natural law , which - assuming appropriate hermeneutics - makes it compatible from the perspective of a modern conception of the law of reason.

Publications

  • The intentionality in Thomas von Aquin and Edmund Husserl , Vienna (among others): 1972, ISBN 3-7029-0050-0 .
  • Human dignity between freedom and equality. Christian social teaching, principles and confrontation , St. Pölten u. a .: 1977, 2. verb. u. exp. 1978 edition, ISBN 3-85326-432-8 .
  • Family- friendly living in the future , Vienna: 1980, ISBN 3-900353-02-6 .
  • Introduction to Philosophy , Freiburg i. E.g. 1981, 14th complete edition. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-27851-8 .
  • Humanity in the social system. Considerations for an interdisciplinary discussion , co-author: Rudolf Weiler , Vienna: 1982
  • Flexible work. Opportunities and dangers for human dignity , Vienna: 1985
  • Christian social teaching. Catholic social teaching, Protestant social ethics; the spiritual foundation of Christian trade unionists , Vienna: 1981, 2nd edition 1986
  • Outline of a sexual ethic. A contribution from the Catholic Family Association of Austria and the Main Association of Parents' Associations at Catholic Private Schools , Vienna: 1989
  • Ethics. An introduction (originally: Introduction to Ethics , 1992), Düsseldorf: 2012, 4th edition, ISBN 3-8436-0010-4 .
  • Christian social ethics. Introduction and principles , Paderborn u. a .: 1998, ISBN 3-506-98508-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the “autobiographical sketch” in: Konrad Hilpert (Ed.): Theologische Ethik autobiographisch . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2007.
  2. ↑ Christian Spieß (ed.): Freedom - Nature - Religion. Studies on social ethics . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2010.
  3. ↑ Cologne Declaration in full (PDF; 22 kB), accessed on March 4, 2011
  4. ^ Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening , accessed February 4, 2011
  5. ↑ Arno Anzenbacher, Introduction to Philosophy, 8th edition, Freiburg a. a .: Herder 2010.
  6. ↑ Arno Anzenbacher, Introduction to Ethics, 3rd edition, Düsseldorf: Patmos 2003.
  7. ↑ Arno Anzenbacher, Christian social ethics. Introduction and principles, Paderborn: Schöningh (UTB) 1998.
  8. ↑ See e.g. B. Arno Anzenbacher, Social ethics as natural law ethics, in: Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences 43 (2002), 14-32.
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Arno Anzenbacher, Kant and the natural law ethics, in: Alfred Klose u. a. (Ed.), Order in Social Change. Festschrift for Johannes Messner on his 85th birthday, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1976, 127-146.
personal data
SURNAME Anzenbacher, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz