Johannes Baptist Lotz

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Johannes Baptist Lotz (born August 2, 1903 in Darmstadt , † June 3, 1992 in Munich ; also: Johannes B. Lotz ) was a German Jesuit and philosopher of Neuthomism and the Catholic existential philosophy .

Life

Lotz joined the Society of Jesus in 1921 . He studied theology in Innsbruck , philosophy in Valkenburg and Freiburg im Breisgau - among others with Martin Honecker and Martin Heidegger . He received his doctorate from Martin Honecker in 1937 (subject: Beings and being: the foundation of an investigation into being and value ). After receiving his doctorate, Lotz taught ontology , philosophical anthropology and the history of philosophy at the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach , and from 1969 onwards at the Munich University of Philosophy , of which he was rector three times. From 1952 to 1985 he also worked at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome .

Lotz tried - following Joseph Maréchal - to incorporate contemporary philosophy and Kant's transcendental method into church thinking. In particular, he tried to use Heidegger's insights to reinterpret the tradition of Thomas Aquinas . With the connection of the ontological question about being and the existential-philosophical question about the essence of man, he wanted to show ways to the knowledge of God and to the self-discovery of man. Furthermore, he dealt intensively with topics of spirituality and meditation .

Fonts

  • Being and worth. A metaphysical interpretation of the axiom “Ens et bonum convertuntur” in the space of the scholastic doctrine of transcendentality. Volume 1: Being and being (= research on modern philosophy and its history. 9, ZDB -ID 528066-7 ). Schöningh, Paderborn 1938, (at the same time: Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau), University, phil. Dissertation, from November 19, 1937: Beings and being. Foundation of an investigation into being and value. 2nd, revised and increased edition as: Judgment and being. A foundation of metaphysics (= Pullacher philosophical research. 2, ISSN  0079-7928 ). Berchmanskolleg, Pullach near Munich 1957).
  • Meditation, the way in. Philosophical clarification, instructions for execution. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1954, (2nd, expanded edition as: Meditation in everyday life. Ibid 1959).
  • From the loneliness of man. To the intellectual situation of the technical age. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • Practice in meditating on the New Testament. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Being and existence. Critical studies with a systematic intention (= philosophy in individual presentations. Supplementary volumes . 2, ZDB -ID 538511-8 ). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1965.
  • Man in being. Attempts on the history and matter of philosophy (= philosophy in individual presentations. Supplementary volumes. 3). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1967.
  • Brief guide to meditation. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7820-0302-0 .
  • Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas. Man, time, being. Neske, Pfullingen 1975, ISBN 3-7885-0058-1 .
  • The three unity of love. Eros, Philía, Agápe. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7820-0433-7 .
  • There is an atheist in everyone. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-7820-0464-7 .
  • From being to sacred. Metaphysical thinking according to Heidegger. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7820-0603-8 .

literature

  • Erasmo N. Bautista Lucas: Metaphysics in the Approach. Understanding of being from the overall human performance in Joh. Bapt. Lotz. Nossa y Jara, Móstoles - Madrid 1996, ISBN 84-87169-89-9 (also: Innsbruck, Universität, dissertation, 1990).
  • Emerich Coreth , Walter M. Neidl, Georg Pfligersdorffer (eds.): Christian philosophy in Catholic thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 2: Recourse to Scholastic Legacy. Styria, Graz et al. 1988, ISBN 3-222-11800-0 .
  • Max Müller : Confrontation as reconciliation. A conversation about a life with philosophy. Published by Wilhelm Vossenkuhl . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002627-8 (on Lotz: 78, 81, 114, 231, 248, 331).

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personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Johannes Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotz, Johannes B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1992
Place of death Munich