Fridolin Wiplinger

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Fridolin Wiplinger (born January 17, 1932 in Haslach an der Mühl ( Upper Austria ), † February 4, 1973 ) was an Austrian philosopher . As a phenomenologist , he was primarily in the tradition of Martin Heidegger .

life and work

Wiplinger attended the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz and then studied philosophy , education , history and German studies in Vienna , Freiburg im Breisgau and Berlin . In his dissertation he investigated the nature of truth in Martin Heidegger's thinking .

From 1964 Wiplinger worked as an assistant at the Second Philosophical Institute at the University of Vienna . In 1969 he completed his habilitation with a thesis "on the body phenomenon in its meaning for the origin of metaphysics in Aristotle ". It was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize and published as a book in 1971.

»Philosophy is really only, i. .h it only happens as and in philosophizing. «Wiplinger wrote in his 1970 book» Der personal verstandene Tod «. In response to the question of how a living person can experience death for himself, he refers there to "personal love that calls for unconditionality, for 'finality'"

On January 1, 1973, Wiplinger was appointed full professor of philosophy and director of the II Philosophical Institute in Vienna. He died of a heart attack on February 4, 1973, leaving behind his wife and three children. In his last conversation with Heidegger, Wiplinger is said to have said to him that “he is not through yet”, which shows that his work has remained fragmentary, even if the essentials are already contained in it.

Wiplinger's conversation with Heidegger a few months earlier became the preface to the book "Metaphysics" edited by Peter Kampits from the estate, a lecture from the winter semester 1972/73 on "Basic questions of their origin and their completion". Here, too, one of the main concerns is concern about the origins and, at the same time, the history of the development of fundamental philosophical ideas.

Wiplinger visited Heidegger a few months before his death and began the conversation with the words: "What has been bothering me for some time is the beginning of your 'Letter on Humanism' from 1946." According to Heidegger's reference to "Theoria among the Greeks." "He replied:" It is precisely when I hold onto the theoria in the ontological sense that I get into the greatest difficulties; for ontological thinking is for me at the same time practice-related, of course in a higher sense, insofar as practice now means Christian belief in revelation. "

Book publications

Truth and historicity. An investigation into the question of the essence of truth in Martin Heidegger's thinking. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1961

Death understood personally. Experience of death as self-experience. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1970.2. Edition 1980, 3rd edition 1985. ISBN 978-3-495-47205-7

Physique and Logos. On the body phenomenon in its meaning for the origin of metaphysics in Aristotle. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1971

Metaphysics. Basic questions of their origin and their completion. Foreword by Martin Heidegger. Edited by Peter Kampits. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1976. ISBN 978-3-495-47335-1

literature

  • Walter Strolz: A thinker of the original experience . In Memoriam Fridolin Wiplinger. In: Word and Truth 28 Vol. 3 May / June 1973
  • Helena Stockinger: About the word, love and the personally experienced death to the existence of self-being. Confrontation with Ferdinand Ebner and Fridolin Wiplinger . University of Vienna, Vienna 2009 ( univie.ac.at , pdf 337 MB).
  • Johannes Vorlaufer :  Wiplinger, Fridolin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1414-1416.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fridolin Wiplinger: Truth and Historicity: An investigation into the question of the essence of truth in Martin Heidegger's thinking . Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1961 ( d-nb.info ).
  2. ^ "Physis and Logos". Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1971
  3. ↑ Martin Heidegger, Fridolin Wiplinger's last visit. Freiburg i. Br. 1974. Foreword to Wiplinger's "Metaphysics".
personal data
SURNAME Wiplinger, Fridolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Haslach an der Mühl
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1973