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Iso Kern (born October 3, 1937 in Bern ) is a Swiss philosopher specializing in Chinese philosophy .

Life

After graduating from the municipal high school , Kern studied philosophy from 1956 to 1960, initially for three years at the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and then for the fourth year at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau. He received his doctorate in Louvain (Leuven) in October 1961 with a dissertation on Husserl's relationship to Kant and Neo-Kantianism .

From February 1962 to autumn 1971, Kern worked at the Husserl Archive in Leuven on the publication of the texts on the phenomenological theory of intersubjectivity from Husserl's shorthand estate. During this time, from 1963 to 1965, Kern studied colloquial Chinese at the Sinological Institute of the University of Leuven .

In 1972 Iso Kern went to Heidelberg . There he completed his habilitation in July 1973 at the Ruprecht-Karls-University with the text Idea and Method of Philosophy. Guiding principles for a theory of reason. Until the end of the winter semester 1978/79, Kern taught philosophy at the University of Heidelberg as a permanent lecturer. On April 1, 1979, he had terminated his open-ended contract in order to devote himself to Chinese philosophy.

Until October 1984, Iso Kern was studying at the National Taiwan University , at Columbia University in New York City and at the Philosophical Institutes of the Universities of Nanjing and Beijing . After his return to Switzerland, Kern took on teaching positions in Chinese philosophy at the Universities of Zurich and Friborg .

From 1985, Iso Kern then taught at the University of Bern on Daoism , Confucianism and Buddhism in China . In 1995 he was appointed adjunct professor .

He lives with his Chinese wife in Krattigen on Lake Thun.

Publications

Monographs

  • Husserl and Kant. An investigation into Husserl's relationship to Kant and neo-Kantianism. Dissertation 1961 (Phaenomenologica Volume 16). Nijhoff, The Hague 1964, ISBN 90-247-0249-6 .
  • Idea and method of philosophy. Guiding principles for a theory of reason. de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-11-004843-4 .
  • Buddhist Critique of Christianity in 17th Century China , Swiss Asian Studies, Monographs Vol. 11, 1992
  • Edmund Husserl. Representation of his thinking. Together with Rudolf Bernet and Eduard Marbach. Meiner, Hamburg 1996
  • The most important thing in life. Wang Yangming (1472–1529) and his successors on the «Realization of Original Knowledge» . Schwabe, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7965-2514-8 .
  • The good way of doing business. Attempt an ethics for our time, Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2020, ISBN 978-3-7965-4074-5 Print Edition, ISBN 978-3-7965-4158-2 eBook (PDF)

Editing

  • Edmund Husserl: On the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. Texts from the estate. First part: 1905-1920. (Husserliana Volume 13). Springer, Berlin 1973, ISBN 90-247-5028-8 .
  • Edmund Husserl: On the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. Texts from the estate. Second part: 1921-1928. (Husserliana Volume 14). Springer, Berlin 1973, ISBN 90-247-5029-6 .
  • Edmund Husserl: On the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. Texts from the estate. Third part: 1929-1935 . (Husserliana Volume 15). Springer, Berlin 1973, ISBN 90-247-5030-X .

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SURNAME Core, iso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 王守仁
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern