Francis of Heereman

Franziskus Freiherr Heereman von Zuydtwyck (* 1976 ) is a German philosopher .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1996 at the Quirinus-Gymnasium in Neuss and military service (1996–1997) (basic training for paramedics in Horb ) ( military music as a trumpeter in Lüneburg ), he studied from the 1997 winter semester to the 2002 summer semester at the University of Philosophy and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich Philosophy (major), fundamental theology , literary studies from a philosophical perspective. With a work on Nicolaus Cusanus, Given. Man and God in the Cusanian Tractatus "De visione dei" , earned the Magister Artium ( summa cum laude ). The doctoral studies (winter semester 2003 - summer semester 2009) with Jörg Splett became Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate . The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung supported him with a doctoral scholarship from November 2005 to October 2008. The dissertation was awarded the Richard Schaeffler Prize . From August 2009 to March 2011 he was a consultant for philosophical-theological foundations at the Spiritual Center of the Maltese in Ehreshoven , parallel to scientific publications. From November 2010 to March 2011 he was research assistant (substitute) for Walter Schweidler at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Since April 2011 he has been a freelance speaker at the Spiritual Center of the Maltese in Ehreshoven and did preparatory work for the planned habilitation project. In January 2012 he began his habilitation , which he completed in July 2016 at the Philosophy School. Since October 2012, he has been teaching at the Institute for Philosophy of Religion at the Philosophy College, where he has been a lecturer in Philosophy of Religion since April 2017. In the summer semester of 2016 he represented the chair for the history of philosophy and philosophical ethics ( Holger Zaborowski ) at the PTH Vallendar. Since November 2016 he has held the endowed chair for philosophy of social and charitable action - anthropology, ethics, philosophy of religion at the PTH Vallendar .

Since 1995 he has been volunteering in the nursing and care of disabled people with the Maltese. From 1997 to 2006 he was the initiator and project manager of a holiday project for severely disabled people in Lebanon (awarded the Peace of Westphalia Prize ). Since 1999 he has been a member of the Order of Malta . He has been a member of the German-Lebanese Steering Committee of Malteser Caravan since 2008 and of the Lebanon Camps Executive Committee since 2015. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Council of the German Association of the Order of Malta. In June 2020 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his social commitment .

His research focuses are systematic: anthropology (focus: interpersonality), ethics (focus: metaethics , human dignity), philosophy of religion (focus: evidence of God , theodicy , philosophy of the Trinity ), historical: German idealism (especially focus: Johann Gottlieb Fichte ), Thomas von Aquin , Nicolaus Cusanus , Sören Kierkegaard , Ludwig Feuerbach , Emmanuel Levinas and specialties: philosophy of love, philosophy of the image, philosophy of charitable action.

Publications (selection)

• Self and image. On the person of the last Fichte (1810–1814) (= Fichte-Studien , Volume 40). Rodopi, Amsterdam 2010, ISBN 978-90-420-3195-1 (also dissertation, University of Philosophy Munich 2009).
• as editor with Sascha Müller : Mitbaren. Jörg Splett on his 80th birthday (= philosophy , volume 32). Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 3-8316-4571-X .
• One for the other. Historical-systematic study of the relationship between love as goodness and person as image . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2019, ISBN 3-495-48920-7 (also habilitation thesis, University of Philosophy Munich 2016).

Web links

• PTH Vallendar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honor for social commitment: Meerbuscher receives Federal Cross of Merit. RP Online , June 29, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .