Franz Kröner

Franz Kröner (born December 12, 1889 in Schönwald , North Moravia , † April 24, 1958 in Zurich ) was an Austrian philosopher . As a "philosophy historian with systematic intent" who remained unknown during his lifetime, he founded systematology .

Life

The son of a Schönwalder senior teacher and organist attended high school in Friedeck and lived in a Catholic religious home. From 1908 to 1914 and from 1919 to 1922 he studied mathematics and then physics at the University of Vienna , interrupted by his deployment in the Landsturm in the First World War from 1916 to 1918. This was followed by the expansion of the course to other natural sciences (astronomy, biological evolution theory and brain physiology ) and philosophy . He dealt in particular with the great philosophical systems and problems of epistemology. In 1922 he received his doctorateRobert Reininger with the dissertation on transcendence and irrationality . He then worked as a private tutor for an Austrian noble family.

In 1929 he married Ottilie Mayr. In the same year Kröner came out through his major work, The Anarchy of Philosophical Systems , published by Meiner Verlag . With the philosophical-logical investigation of the systematic reciprocal relationships of the philosophical systems with one another, he began to establish a special philosophical auxiliary discipline that he calls systematology . An attempt at habilitation in Vienna in 1930 failed. In 1933, Kröner, who was also a sponsoring member of the SS , joined the NSDAP . From 1935 he lived in Munich, where he was financed by a grant from the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft .

In 1939 Kröner completed his habilitation in Munich with an attempt at a logic of philosophy . The writing took the claim, Weber's thesis of value-freedom of science to refute and by the then commission members (was Kurt Schilling , Robert Spindler , Hans Grunsky , Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen , Oswald Kroh and Karl Alexander Müller ) primarily ideologically and received as a contribution to the fight against neopositivism ; Grunsky and Kroh in particular expressed ideological criticism in the course of the proceedings, which basically accused Kröner of his own positions from The Anarchy of Philosophical Systems and of a not far enough, also political, demarcation from the neo-positivists. In 1940 the Reich Ministry of Education appointed him lecturer of the new order; in this capacity he taught in Graz until 1945.

After the war, he initially worked as the educational director of the Graz Adult Education Center. In the fall of 1951, Kröner came to Ferdinand Gonseth at the ETH Zurich as a lecturer in philosophy of sciences on the mediation of Gert Heinz Müller . In 1955 he received a research loan from the Swiss National Science Foundation for research into the mutual relationships between philosophy and physics . But Kröner died before he could complete this project.

Despite his criticism of the ideas of the Vienna Circle as developed by Ernst Mach and represented by Rudolf Carnap , Kröner was in lively exchange with representatives of logical empiricism and neopositivism , above all with Heinrich Gomperz .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Heinrichs : The logic of the critique of reason. Kant's theory of categories in their current meaning. An introduction. UTB 1412. Francke Verlag: Tübingen 1986. ISBN 3-7720-1726-6 . P. 10.

literature

• Karl Acham: “Franz Kröner's systematology. To the attempt of a topology of philosophical systems ”, in: Thomas Binder (Ed.): Building blocks for a history of philosophy at the University of Graz. Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York 2001, pp. 373-410. ISBN 90-420-1151-3 .
• Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Part 1. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 729 ff. ISBN 3-05-003647-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Kröner in the catalog of the German National Library