Gerold Prauss

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Gerold Prauss

Gerold Prauss (born May 25, 1936 in Troppau (Opava) , Czechoslovakia ) is a German philosopher and representative of a modern transcendental philosophy .

Life

Gerold Prauss studied philosophy, German, history and classical philology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1957 to 1963 and graduated with a state examination in 1963. The doctoral studies began in Göttingen in 1963 and 1964 and the doctorate was completed in Bonn in 1965 with the thesis Plato and Logical Eleatism , in which he shows that Plato does not yet reflect the relationship between things and properties. After postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Yale ( USA ), he completed his habilitation in 1970 with the book Appearance in Kant. A problem of the “Critique of Pure Reason” .

After a position as a lecturer and substitute for a professorship, Gerold Prauss taught as a professor of philosophy from 1976 to 1980 at the University of Cologne , from 1980 to 1984 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and then from 1984 until his retirement in 2001 at the Albert-Ludwigs- University of Freiburg . He publishes on the philosophy of antiquity, modern times and the present with a focus on epistemology and action theory, ontology, mind-body problems and is considered a proven expert on Kant's philosophy .

Selected publications

  • 1966 Plato and logical Eleatism. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1966 (dissertation Bonn)
  • 1968 Thing and quality in Plato and Aristotle. In: Kant studies , 59
  • 1969 On the problem of truth in Kant. In: Kant studies , 60
  • 1971 Appearance by Kant. A problem of the “Critique of Pure Reason” . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1971 (habilitation thesis).
  • 1974 Kant and the problem of things in themselves . Bonn (2nd edition 1977, 3rd edition 1989)
  • 1976 Frege's contribution to epistemology. Reflections on his essay "The Thought" . In: General Journal for Philosophy 1
  • 1977 Recognizing and acting in Heidegger's “Being and Time” . ( Fermenta philosophica ) Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg / Munich 1977 (2nd edition 1996) ISBN 978-3-495-47365-8
  • 1980 Introduction to epistemology . Darmstadt (2nd edition 1988, 3rd edition 1993)
  • 1981 Kant's problem of the unity of theoretical and practical reason . in: Kant studies 72
  • 1983 Kant on freedom as autonomy . Frankfurt am Main
  • 1986 (Ed.) Action theory and transcendental philosophy . Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1990 The world and us . Volume 1 : Subject and Object of Theory . First part: language-subject-time . Stuttgart, ISBN 3-476-00698-0
  • 1993 The world and us . Volume 1 : Subject and Object of Theory . Second part: space-substance-causality . Stuttgart / Weimar, ISBN 3-476-00699-9
  • 1999 The world and us . Volume Two : Subject and Object of Practice . First part: form and content of an intention as consciousness . Stuttgart / Weimar, ISBN 3-476-00700-6
  • 2006 The world and us . Volume Two : Subject and Object of Practice . Part Two: The Limits of an Intention . Stuttgart / Weimar, ISBN 3-476-01743-5
  • 2008 Morality and Law in the State according to Kant and Hegel . Freiburg
  • 2015 The unity of subject and object. Kant's problems with things themselves . Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg, ISBN 978-3-495-48773-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G.Prauss: Plato and the logical Eleaticism . Pp. 125-136.
personal data
SURNAME Prauss, Gerold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau , Sudetenland