Bernhard Lakebrink

Bernhard Lakebrink (born August 5, 1904 in Asseln near Paderborn , † February 7, 1991 in Paderborn) was a German Catholic philosopher of Thomistic stamp.

Bernhsrd Lakebrink. Signature 1979

Life

After graduating from high school Theodorianum in Paderborn, he studied law and philosophy in Bonn , Munich and Freiburg . As a student he became a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Albertia Munich and Germania-Hohentwiel Freiburg in KV . On the essence of theoretical necessity with special consideration of the Kantian and modern interpretation ( Natorp , Heidegger ) he received his doctorate in February 1930 with Adolf Dyroff in Bonn. a. - since 1947 - to work at the traditional Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne .

Through his courageous and scientifically competent collaboration in studies on the myth of the 20th century directed against Alfred Rosenberg (other authors: Wilhelm Neuss , Hermann Platz and Josef Steinberg ), he resisted the appropriation of medieval philosophy and theology, especially Meister Eckhart , in 1934 the National Socialist ideology. He completed his habilitation with the medievalist Josef Koch in 1954 at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the relationship between Thomism and Hegelian thought . After a visiting professorship in Münster, he succeeded Max Müller at the University of Freiburg in 1959 . As a professor of philosophy, he taught there until his retirement in 1973. On May 29, 1987, Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi appointed him a member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of St. Thomas and the Catholic Religion .

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Through Lakebrink, the thinking of the Italian Thomist Cornelio Fabro (1911–1995) was received in the German-speaking area.

His book Classical Metaphysics (1967) contained a criticism of Joseph Maréchal and Karl Rahner . Both are representatives of a subjective or transcendental idealism that cannot be reconciled with the biblical concept of creation because it absolutizes man - despite “his pathetic predilection for finitude and historicity of man.” This idealism is “the creeping disease of our day”, the “Today it has broken deep into the once so solidified world of Catholic theology and created an atmosphere of uncertainty and danger, the end of which ... is not yet in sight.” With Thomas Aquinas and Hegel, Lakebrink argued against Kant and modern theology . "Hegel's unsurpassable criticism of Kant's idealism" apparently never arrived in modern theology, otherwise it would not have been possible for that paradoxical attempt to transpose classical Thomism into the thin air of Kantianism, the sacred metaphysics of the Literally to sacrifice St. Thomas Aquinas to transcendental criticism. " Lakebrink was concerned with a metaphysics that never changes, because its "truth is too timeless to be historically vulnerable in any way." Theology has the task of keeping the treasure of dogmas "in spite of all the adversities of the times out of the waters of history and above them, so that it" may "save it intact and undiminished" until Judgment Day. Lakebrink emphasizes the primacy of unhistory over historicity, the primacy of "untimely" over time. One has to realize that "all history is only possible on the basis of unhistory". "All time is inherent in the inopportunity as a condition of its possibility". The "fixed essence in being and cognition" should not be "dragged into the historicity of human existence". Lakebrink sees historicity and temporality as a threat to truth, which "triumphs over all history and temporality". The names "Jesus" and "Christ" are not mentioned once in the book.

The term Thomistic analectics (against dialectics ), coined by Hans Hof, became known through Lakebrink's habilitation thesis .

One of Lakebrink's students, Peter Wacker (* 1939), had been professor of philosophy at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education since 1971 . Another student was Claus Günzler .

Fonts

To the Eckehart problem. In: Studies on the Myth of the XX. Century. Cologne 1934.
Hegel's dialectical ontology and the Thomistic analectic. Cologne 1955.
Studies on Hegel's Metaphysics. Refutation of the philosophy / dialectic of Hegel. Rombach, Freiburg 1969.
Commentary on Hegel's “Logic” in his “Encyclopedia” from 1830. Alber, Freiburg, Munich

Volume 1: Being and being. 1979. ISBN 3-495-47410-2

Volume 2: Concept. 1985. ISBN 3-495-47424-2

literature

Cornelio Fabro (Ed.): Present and Tradition: Structures of Thought. A commemorative publication for Bernhard Lakebrink. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 1969.
David Berger : Bernhard Lakebrink. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 861-864. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Bernhard Lakebrink in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ B. Lakebrink: Classical Metaphysics. Freiburg i. Br. 1967. pp. 64 f.
↑ Ibid. P. 65. Elsewhere he speaks of the "disease of transcendentality", which "confuses thinking, irritates science and now even pressures Catholic theology and its exegesis." (Ibid. P. 143)
↑ Ibid. 125f. The question to be directed to Lakebrink is whether he is not transposing Thomism into the thin air of Hegelianism.
↑ Ibid. P. 9.
↑ Ibid. 125.
↑ Ibid. P. 100.
↑ p. 187.
↑ p. 209.
↑ Ibid. P. 9.
↑ On p. 245 there is still talk of the "figure of God incarnate". On page 19 there is a Latin quotation from Thomas about the "Antichrist". One concern of the renewed metaphysics criticized by Lakebrink was to bridge the classic hiatus between metaphysics and theology of revelation.
^ Hans Hof: Scintilla animae. A study on a basic concept in Meister Eckhart's philosophy with special consideration of the relationship between Eckhart's philosophy and the Neoplatonic and Thomistic view. Lund / Bonn 1952. p. 154. The book is in the Cologne Thomas Institute (call number C5 / 675), of which Lakebrink was the deputy head. Berger's assertion that Lakebrink was created should therefore be corrected.

personal data
SURNAME	Lakebrink, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic philosopher of Thomistic stamp
DATE OF BIRTH	5th August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woodlice near Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1991
Place of death	Paderborn

[1] B. Lakebrink: Classical Metaphysics. Freiburg i. Br. 1967. pp. 64 f.

[2] Ibid. P. 65. Elsewhere he speaks of the "disease of transcendentality", which "confuses thinking, irritates science and now even pressures Catholic theology and its exegesis." (Ibid. P. 143)

[3] Ibid. 125f. The question to be directed to Lakebrink is whether he is not transposing Thomism into the thin air of Hegelianism.

[4] Ibid. P. 9.

[5] Ibid. 125.

[6] Ibid. P. 100.

[7] . 187.

[8] . 209.

[9] Ibid. P. 9.

[10] On p. 245 there is still talk of the "figure of God incarnate". On page 19 there is a Latin quotation from Thomas about the "Antichrist". One concern of the renewed metaphysics criticized by Lakebrink was to bridge the classic hiatus between metaphysics and theology of revelation.

[11] Hans Hof: Scintilla animae. A study on a basic concept in Meister Eckhart's philosophy with special consideration of the relationship between Eckhart's philosophy and the Neoplatonic and Thomistic view. Lund / Bonn 1952. p. 154. The book is in the Cologne Thomas Institute (call number C5 / 675), of which Lakebrink was the deputy head. Berger's assertion that Lakebrink was created should therefore be corrected.