Bernward Grünewald

Bernward Grünewald (born September 7, 1941 in Hagen ) is a German philosopher . He is a student of Hans Wagner and represents one of Kant oriented and Husserl's phenomenology added transcendental philosophy .

Life

Grünewald studied - after graduating from high school in Steyl / NL - at the universities of Tübingen and Bonn , where he obtained his doctorate in 1973 and qualified as a professor in 1982. After visiting professorships and substitutions at the universities of Neuchâtel , Bern , Basel , Leipzig , Jena and Halle , he taught at the University of Cologne from 1999 . He has been retired since 2006.

Research priorities

In practical philosophy, Grünewald dealt with Kant with the question of the justification of the moral law (the categorical imperative ). He tries to explain the validity of the principle of morality for every willing by showing it to be a condition of willing, insofar as it does not understand itself as mere wishing, but, in order to determine action, necessarily makes demands on itself and on others.

In his theory of the humanities, Grünewald tries, with recourse to the phenomenological concept of the noema , in the understanding of meaning, to demonstrate a form of receptivity that is specific to the humanities and different from the perception of physical objects . In contrast to Dilthey and the Neo-Kantians , Grünewald does not believe that Kant's “ Critique of Pure Reason ” should be understood merely as a foundation of the natural sciences , but tries to show that the structure of the meaningful receptivity (or the “ noematic system ”) allows it to give the categories worked out in the “Critique of Pure Reason” a specific meaning in the humanities.

Grünewald, together with Reinhold Aschenberg , Stephan Nachtsheim and Hariolf Oberer, has been publishing Hans Wagner's collected writings at Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh since 2012 .

Publications (selection)

• Practical Reason, Modality and Transcendental Unity. The problem of a transcendental deduction of the moral law , in: Kant. Analyzes - Problems - Criticism, ed. v. H. Oberer and G. Seel, Würzburg 1988, pp. 127-167.
• The phenomenological origin of the logical. A critical analysis of the phenomenological foundation of logic in Edmund Husserl's "Logical Investigations" , Kastellaun 1977. ( ISBN 3-450-06912-8 )
• Modality and empirical thinking. A critical examination of the Kantian modal theory , Hamburg 1986. ( ISBN 3-7873-0667-6 )
• Spirit - culture - society. Attempt of a principle theory of the humanities on a transcendental philosophical basis , Berlin 2009. ( ISBN 978-3-428-13160-0 )

Web link

• Prof. Dr. Bernward Grünewald. University of Cologne, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 16, 2018 (biography and bibliography). 
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