Fernando Inciarte

Fernando Inciarte Armiñán

Fernando Inciarte Armiñán (born May 30, 1929 in Madrid , † June 9, 2000 in Pamplona ) was a Spanish philosopher , university professor and author. He was professor of philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas . In the early 1950s he was one of the founders of the German section of the Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei .

Life

Following his first doctorate in Rome , Inciarte was one of the first Opus Dei members sent to Germany by Josemaría Escrivá in 1952, together with the Catalan priest Alfons Par , the doctor Jorge Cervós-Navarro and the lawyer Fernando Echeverría To build Opus Dei. He received his doctorate a second time in Cologne in 1956 and completed his habilitation in 1968 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1975 until his retirement in 1994 he was a full professor of philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He held his inaugural lecture at the University of Münster on May 15, 1976. His teaching and lecturing activities also included guest stays at various European and North and South American universities. He was an adjunct professor at the Opus Dei University of Navarra in Pamplona , where he conducted doctoral colloquia.

Inciarte was particularly concerned with the philosophy of Aristotle , Heidegger , phenomenology and the Anglo-Saxon philosophy of language . The publication of his writings, some of which have remained unpublished and in which he presents his own philosophical system, is in the hands of the University of Navarra in Pamplona.

Inciarte analyzed the criticism of logical positivism and psychoanalysis of traditional metaphysics and agreed on a number of points. Nevertheless, in his opinion, this does not mean the end of metaphysics as “first philosophy”, but creates opportunities to correct rationalistic or objectivist “imbalances” in metaphysics. In his essays on political philosophy , he dealt with the basics of the Spanish understanding of the nation and state of the transition period . In his cultural criticism he was close to Robert Spaemann , whom he inspired for Opus Dei. Inciarte pointed out the etymological dependency of the terms “ culture ” and “ cult ”, the relationship of which threatens to be lost in the secularist understanding of culture of the present, which his student, the cultural philosopher Ana Marta González, sees as the core problem of the cultural crisis of our time.

Fonts (selection)

• The determination of reflection in dialectical thinking , Cologne 1957.
• Forma Formarum , Freiburg-Munich 1970.
• Transcendental imagination , Bonn 1970.
• Uniqueness and variation. The preservation of phenomena and the problem of reductionism , Freiburg-Munich 1973.
• El reto del positivismo lógico , Rialp, Madrid 1974, ISBN 84-321-1666-1 .
• with Peter Geach , Robert Spaemann : Personal responsibility. Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 1982.
• Natural and / or common law. 30 theses and one attempt . In: Fernando Inciarte, Berthold Wald (ed.): Human rights and development. In dialogue with Latin America (= Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 39). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-89354-539-5 , pp. 87-99.
• Breve Teoría de La España Moderna , Eunsa, Pamplona 2001, ISBN 84-313-1915-1 .
• The meaning of freedom for the blessed Josemaría Escrivá , in: César Ortiz : (Ed.): Josemaría Escrivá. Profile of a founder figure, Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 2002, pp. 419-432.
• Alejandro Llano (Ed.): Liberalismo y republicanismo. Ensayos de filosofía política , Eunsa, Pamplona 2001, ISBN 84-313-1924-0 .
• Lourdes Flamarique (ed.): Imágenes, palabras, signos. Sobre arte y filosofía , Eunsa, Pamplona 2004, ISBN 84-313-2165-2 .
• Lourdes Flamarique (Ed.): First Principles, Substance and Action , Georg Olms , Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 978-34-87129877 .
• María Antonia Labrada Rubio (ed.): La imaginación trascendental en la vida, en el arte y en la filosofía , Eunsa, Pamplona 2012, ISBN 978-84-313-2867-2 .
• Lourdes Flamarique (ed.): Cultura y verdad , Eunsa, Pamplona 2016, ISBN 978-84-313-3158-0 .

Awards

• Premio Roncesvalles (Philosophy Prize from the University of Navarra ), 1998

literature

• Alejandro Llano (Ed.): Liberalismo y Republicanismo . Eunsa, Pamplona, ​​2001 (Editor's Introduction).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “How can we humans build a bridge to God?” Article on the 60th anniversary of Opus Dei in Germany on the organization's website, accessed in November 2017.
2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 85 (1978) 19.
3. ↑ Alejandro Llano (Ed.): Liberalismo y Republicanismo , pp. 10, 13.
4. ↑ Alejandro Llano (Ed.): Liberalismo y Republicanismo , p. 11.
5. ^ Ana Marta González: Faith, Work, Culture. The possibility of a Christian Modernity in the message of Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Lecture from November 2002 at an Opus Dei conference at the Murray Hill Institute, New York, published on the company's own platform josemariaescriva.info , accessed in November 2017.
6. ^ El alemán Robert Spaemann, galardonado con el Premio Roncesvalles de la Universidad. University of Navarra press release, May 4, 2001, accessed autumn 2017.