Jörg Peter Disse

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Jörg Peter Disse (born January 17, 1959 in Hamburg-Harburg ) is a German philosopher and theologian .

Life

Disse studied philosophy , German , English and theology in Basel, Geneva, FU Berlin, Oxford, Friborg and Strasbourg. He obtained his doctorate in 1990. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Basel and habilitated in 1995 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne as Dr. theol. habil. Disse was a lecturer or professor in philosophy and theology at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana , the University of Lucerne and the University of Metz, among others . Since 2002 he has held the chair for Fundamental Theology , Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical-Theological Propaedeutics at the Theological Faculty of Fulda and since 2003 lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt am Main .

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Research focuses on metaphysics , philosophical psychology ( philosophy of mind ) and philosophical-theological anthropology . The focus is on the question of people ( individuality , self-confidence , freedom , desire , fear (philosophy) , hope ) and the meaning of human existence ( religion , God , faith ). In his work "Desiderium: A Philosophy of Desire", the author deals with the anthropological principle already indicated in Plato and formulated by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas , according to which all desire is ultimately directed towards a highest good or God, and questions under Consideration of the current phenomenology , psychoanalysis , empirical psychology and neurosciences the topic philosophically new.

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • Kierkegaard's phenomenology of the experience of freedom. Alber, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-495-47715-2 (also dissertation, University of Basel 1990).
  • Metaphysics of the Singularity. An introduction to the guideline of the philosophy of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85165-194-4 (also habilitation thesis, University of Lucerne 1996).
  • Short history of occidental metaphysics. From Plato to Hegel. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2007 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-89678-412-9 .
  • Faith and Knowledge of Faith. A study from a biblical theological and systematic point of view. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-7820-0890-1 .
  • Desiderium. A philosophy of desire. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-031473-3 .
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  • God and the question of happiness. Anthropological and ethical perspectives. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-7820-0920-1 (together with Bernd Goebel ).
Translations
  • Xavier Tilliette: Philosophical Christology. An introduction. From the French. Johannes, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-89411-341-3 .

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