Jacob Barion

Jakob Barion (born July 23, 1898 in Wüschheim , † February 16, 1996 in Gummersbach ) was a German professor of philosophy .

Life

Barion, the son of a farmer, was a student at the teachers' college in Euskirchen from 1912 to 1918 . He then worked as a primary school teacher and passed his Abitur in 1921. In 1923 he began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn . He passed the theological exam in 1927. He received his doctorate under Adolf Dyroff in 1928 with a 41-page dissertation on JG Fichte's intellectual outlook and its significance in the philosophy of religion . The work was published in 1929 with a section on Schelling . In this work, he criticized the notion that an immediate acquisition of God may be possible not only in Fichte and Schelling, but also in the essences at Max Scheler . He then worked as an assistant to Dyroff and in 1933 wrote his habilitation thesis “ Plotin and Augustine . Investigations on the problem of God ”, in which he deviated from Rosenberg's representations against a pantheistic-mystical interpretation of the two philosophers.

On July 1, 1933, he became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB, membership number 295.259). His inaugural lecture " Philosophia perennis as a problem and as a task", with which he successfully passed the habilitation process in 1934, appeared in 1936 and was commented on in the Blätter für Deutschen Philosophie to the effect that it remained within the framework of Neuthomism on the one hand and a philosophy of the on the other Community acts without reference to ethnic experiences and “species and race” as “original conditions”. Erich Rothacker reported on this lecture to the Reich Ministry of Education that Barion emphasized the objectivity of knowledge and thus continued the antipsychological work of Brentano and Husserl . He thus overcomes the idealistic and positivistic constrictions and focuses on the true essence of man and his position in the whole of being , so that one can only speak of real man, but not of man as an abstract idea.

Despite these publications, which were at least distanced from National Socialism, Barion was considered politically reliable and ready to participate positively in the new state, although he was of a weak physical constitution and not a “leader”. In 1936 Barion was appointed to represent Dyroff's chair and in 1938 he was appointed to a chair at the Braunsberg State Academy . After the change of canon lawyer Hans Barion , with whom he was not related, he became the (last) rector of the academy in 1938. He published his work “ Plato's mission and work in their historical position” as an appendix to the Academy's course catalog published in 1941. Here he described the unjust tyranny of Dionysius I of Syracuse , whom Plato had visited on a trip, and stated that Plato had not found the “state of justice” either there or in Athens. Also in Athens there was no one with whom Socrates and Plato could have united against the “wicked hustle and bustle of the masses” “for the protection of the just cause”, so that they only had the option of retreating to a “quiet corner”.

After the war, Barion returned to Bonn, where he received a full professorship in 1955. His primary topic was now the philosophy of the state and the relationship between power and law in the state . In an essay on “Power and Law of the State” in 1949, Barion criticized Carl Schmitt's thesis of the sole determining authority in the establishment of laws (auctoritas non veritas facit legem). The justification of the law must be tied to the standard of justice and the prerequisite for a peaceful order is the realm of morality. Furthermore, he took the view that the common good precedes any private good.

Jakob Barion was single.

Fonts

• The intellectual view of JG Fichte and Schelling and their religious-philosophical significance . CJ Becker Univ-Druckerei, Würzburg 1929. Dissertation
• Plotinus and Augustine. Investigations into the God problem . Junker and Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1935
• Philosophia perennis as a problem and as a task . Hüber, Munich 1936
• On research on Albert the German . In: Blätter für Deutsche Philosophie , Volume 11 (1937/38), pp. 51–57.
• On R. Harder's plotin translation . 1939
• Plato's mission and work in their historical position . Krausenecks, Gumbinnen 1941 (Appendix to the course catalog of the Braunsberg Academy)
• Power and law. A study of Plato . Scherpe, Krefeld 1947
• Law, State and Society . Scherpe, Krefeld 1949
• Power and law and the essence of the state . Limbach, Braunschweig 1951
• Universitas and University . Röhrscheid, Bonn 1954
• Hegel and the Marxist theory of the state . Bouvier, Bonn 1963
• What is ideology Study on the concept and problem . Bouvier, Bonn 1964, 2nd ext. 1971 edition
• Ideology - Science - Philosophy . Bouvier, Bonn 1969
• State and Centralism . Bouvier, Bonn 1969
• Philosophy. Introduction to their terminology and main problems . Bouvier, Bonn 1977
• Basic lines of the philosophical state theory . Bouvier, Bonn 1986
• Reality and concept . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1993.

literature

• Peter Baumanns (ed.): Reality and concept: Festschrift for Jakob Barion on his 95th birthday . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-884798386 .
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd, revised. and. exp. Ed., Vol. 1, Munich 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jakob Barion in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information according to: Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich, Academy, Berlin 2002.
2. ↑ Friedrich Sauer: Review of Jakob Barion: Philosophia perennis as a problem and as a task, in: BDPh 12 (1938/39), 113–115.
3. ^ ^{A b} After: Christian Tilitzki: University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich, Academy, Berlin 2002, 660.
4. ^ Journal of the history and archeology of Warmia, Volume 40, p. 116
5. ^ Based on : Christian Tilitzki: University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich, Academy, Berlin 2002, 1126.
6. ↑ Jakob Barion: Power and Ethos in Law, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 59 (1949), 191–199.
7. ↑ Jakob Barion: Law, State and Society, Scherpe, Krefeld 1949, 112.