Caspar Nink

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Caspar Nink SJ (born January 31, 1885 in Molsberg , † November 17, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Roman Catholic priest and philosopher.

Life

Caspar Nink entered the Jesuit novitiate in Exaten (Holland) on May 3, 1905 , studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Order in Valkenburg and was ordained a priest there on July 1, 1917 . He then worked briefly in Göttingen and Rome and took solemn vows in the Jesuit order on August 15, 1922. After receiving his doctorate in 1924 as Dr. phil. At the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , Nink taught logic and epistemology at the Jesuit college in Valkenburg, then from 1926 on epistemology, ontology and the philosophical doctrine of God at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen, founded in the same year . There Nink was among other things the teacher of Hans Blumenberg . He represented a scotist-oriented metaphysics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ontology. Attempt to lay the foundation . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1952, OCLC 644464817 .
  • Metaphysics of the Moral Good . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1955, OCLC 3641347 .
  • On the foundation of metaphysics. The problem of the constitution of being and object . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957, OCLC 905556851 .
  • Philosophical doctrine of God . Kösel, Munich 1948. Reprint: Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-88296-000-0 .
  • Fundamental ontology . With an introduction by Ludger Honnefelder . Edited by Friderun Fein. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-631-38221-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information according to: Andreas Lehr, Das Beende als System. On the concept of the inner multitude of being in Caspar Nink's late work . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34665-4 , p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Nink, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nink, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic priest and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Molsberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1975
Place of death Frankfurt am Main