Heinrich Beck (philosopher)

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Heinrich Beck (born April 27, 1929 in Munich ) is a German philosopher specializing in natural theology and philosophical anthropology .

Life

After studying philosophy, psychology, Catholic theology as well as physics, biology, history and law in Munich and studies in pedagogy and sociology in Münster, Beck started work at the University of Munich in 1954 with a thesis on the modal structure of being in connection with causality-finality- Freedom and PhD by Nicolai Hartmann . In 1962 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Salzburg with a thesis on the structure of nudes and movements in reality from an encounter with Thomas Aquinas and Hegel . He then worked as an assistant at the University of Education in Vechta / Oldenburg and as a lecturer at the Social Academy of the Münster diocese .

In 1979 he was appointed full professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Bamberg , which he held until his retirement in July 1997. Beck continues to teach and, together with Erwin Schadel, heads the research center at the University of Bamberg for intercultural philosophy and Comenius research . Beck had lectureships in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Mexico. At the Gustav Siewerth Academy he was a permanent guest professor for metaphysics and cultural philosophy.

He is a scientific consultor at the Universidad Pontificia de México , a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the International Academy of Sciences and, since 2008, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas . He is a member of the Vienna Catholic Academy.

Heinrich Beck is married and has three children. In 2012 he published an autobiography in which he brought up "the missteps and deficits of his life" with "a very unusual openness".

philosophy

Beck focuses on the theory of being, peace research, the philosophical penetration of the encounter between cultures and the interpretation of the evolution of nature and human culture. A special research project is called “Creative Peace through Encounters between World Cultures”.

Honors

He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2003 and was awarded by Pope Benedict XVI. Knight of the Papal New Year's Eve in 2008.

In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires. He is titular and honorary professor at other universities, including Salzburg, Madrid and Buenos Aires.

Fonts (selection)

  • Possibility and necessity. A development of the ontological theory of modalities in the outcome of Nicolai Hartmann , Berchmanskolleg, Pullach 1961
  • The god of wise men and thinkers. The philosophical question of God , Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1961, 4th edition 1970
  • Culture philosophy of technology. Perspectives on technology-humanity-future , Spee-Verlag, Trier 1979
  • Anthropological approach to belief. A rational meditation , Pustet, Salzburg-Munich 1979, 2nd edition 1982
  • Natural theology. Outline of philosophical knowledge of God , Pustet, Munich-Salzburg 1986, 2nd edition 1988
  • Ek-in-sistance: Positions and Transformations of Existential Philosophy. An introduction to the dynamics of existential thinking , Lang, Frankfurt 1989
  • The act character of being. A speculative continuation of Thomas von Aquin's doctrine of being from a suggestion by the dialectical principle of Hegel , Max Hueber, Munich 1965. Second supplemented edition, with supplements to the metaphysics of material being, Lang, Frankfurt 2001
  • Dimensions of reality. Arguments about ontology and metaphysics. 21 lectures , Lang, Frankfurt 2004
  • Dialogic - Analogy - Trinity. Selected contributions and essays by the author on his 80th birthday . With an introduction ed. by Erwin Schadel, Lang, Frankfurt 2009
  • Episodes and the whole thing. Becoming a philosophical existence. Autobiographical . Lang, Frankfurt 2012

Editorships

  • Philosophy of Education , Herder, Freiburg 1979
  • with Arnulf Rieber: Anthropology and ethics of sexuality. On the ideological debate about physical love , Pustet, Munich-Salzburg 1982
  • with Ismael Quiles: Development towards humanity through the encounter between western and eastern cultures. Files of the IV. Intercontinental Colloquium on Philosophical Insistence Anthropology, 1.-6. September 1986 at the University of Bamberg , Lang, Frankfurt 1988
  • with Gisela Schmirber: Creative Peace through Encounter of World Cultures , Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 1994. Spanish edition: Paz creativa a partir del Encuentro de Culturas del Mundo , Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo / Venezuela 1996. English edition: Creative Peace Through Encounter of World Cultures , Indian Books Center, Delhi 1996. Chinese edition: Wun ming: chong "chong tu" zo xang he ping , Beijing 1998.

Festschriften

  • Erwin Schadel (Ed.): Actualitas omnium actuum . (Festschrift for the 60th birthday), Lang, Frankfurt 1989
  • Erwin Schadel / Uwe Voigt (eds.): Being - recognizing - acting. Intercultural, ontological and ethical perspectives . (Festschrift for the 65th birthday), Lang, Frankfurt 1994
  • Uwe Voigt (Ed.): Human rights in intercultural dialogue. International scientific symposium under the patronage of the European Academy of Sciences in honor of Heinrich Beck , Lang, Frankfurt 1998
  • Eun Kim / Erwin Schadel / Uwe Voigt (eds.): Active serenity (commemorative publication for his 70th birthday), Lang, Frankfurt 1999
  • Erwin Schadel (ed.): Johann Arnos Comenius - thought leader of a creative peace. German-Czech colloquium on the occasion of Heinrich Beck's 75th birthday , Lang, Frankfurt 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich