Gerard Verbeke

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Gerard Verbeke (also French Gérard Verbeke and occasionally Latin Gerardus Verbeke ; * July 15, 1910 in Waregem ; † March 27, 2001 ) was a Belgian historian of philosophy .

Life

Gerard Verbeke was born to Adolphe Verbeke and ordained a priest on April 28, 1935 . From 1946 to 1978 he was professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Leuven . He received honorary doctorates in Milan (1975), Washington (1981) and Ireland (1987). At the philosophers 'congress in August 1948 in Mainz, the second philosophers' congress in Germany after 1945, he attempted a metaphysical justification of the truth in his lecture . In 1958 he published Augustine et le stoicisme, a still fundamental essay on the meaning of the Stoa for Augustine . In 1961 he published the first complete edition of a translation by Wilhelm von Moerbeke . His lecture Avicenna, Founder of a New Metaphysics, given in Düsseldorf in 1982, was published in German .

In 1989 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Kleanthes van Assos . Brussels 1949.
  • Literatuuronderwijs en humaniora . Antwerp 1956.
  • Augustin et le stoicisme , in: RA 1 (1958) pp. 67-89.
  • Het mysterie van de hoop . Brugge / Breda 1959.
  • De mens as 'grens' volgens Aquinas , in: Tijdschrift voor filosofie , 36e jaargang, no 2, June 1974. Leuven 1974.
  • Aquinas and problems of his time , Gerard Verbeke; Daniel Verhelst, in: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1, Studia, 5. Leuven / The Hague 1976.
  • La philosophie du signe chez les Stoiciens , in: J. Brunschwig (ed.), Les Stoiciens et leur logique. Paris 1978. pp. 401-424.
  • Belgium and Europe: proceedings of the international Francqui-colloquium, Brussels-Ghent, 12-14 November 1980 . Brussels 1981.
  • Avicenna, founder of a new metaphysics . Opladen 1983.
  • The presence of stoicism in medieval thought . Washington 1983.
  • Moral education in Aristotle . Washington 1990.
  • D'Aristote à Thomas d'Aquin . Antécédents de la pensée modern. Recueil d'articles. Leuven 1990.

literature

  • Images of man in ancient and medieval thought. Studia Gerardo Verbeke from amicis et collegis dicata. Leuven 1976.

Web links

  • Gerard Verbeke: Het Belgisch aristotelisme en de wetenschappen , in: Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen in België van de Oudheid dead 1815 , p.41-56. Online text including various images at dbnl.org
  • Gerard Verbeke: The Metaphysics of Substance , in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association Volume 61, 1987 . The first page of the text can be viewed online at pdcnet.org
  • Gerard Verbeke: The Presence of Stoicism in Medieval Thought. journals.cambridge.org

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 59 (1949) 109.
  2. ↑ Cf. Barbara Neymeyr / Jochen Schmidt / Bernhard Zimmermann (eds.), Stoicism in European Philosophy, Literature, Art and Politics. A cultural history from antiquity to modern times. Berlin 2008. p. 58.
  3. ^ Fellows: Gerard Verbeke. British Academy, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ at worldcat.org (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Verbeke, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verbeke, Gerardus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian priest, historian of philosophy and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Commodity
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2001