Josef Pieper

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Josef Pieper (born May 4, 1904 in Elte ; † November 6, 1997 in Münster ) was a German Christian philosopher of the 20th century.

Life

Josef Pieper School in Rheine

Pieper studied philosophy, law and sociology at the universities of Berlin and Münster. A crucial teacher for him was Erich Przywara . After working as a sociologist and freelance writer, Pieper was also a professor at the Pedagogical University in Essen from 1946 (until 1972) and a full professor of philosophical anthropology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He taught there from 1946 as a private lecturer and as a professor from 1950 to 1972. After his retirement , he held lectures until 1996.

In 1981 the Catholic Academy in Bavaria awarded him the Romano Guardini Prize . In 1982 he received the Balzan Prize for Philosophy, and in 1987 the State Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1990 he was awarded the Görres Society's ring of honor . Since 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

The Bischöflich Münstersche Technical School for Social and Health Services, which resides in Rheine-Bentlage in a former children's home built in 1910 in the Salinenpark, was renamed the Josef Pieper School in 2000 in honor of the name bearer . In 1999 a street in Münster was named after him.

His grave is in the central cemetery in Münster .

Josef Pieper's grave in Munster

Fund of ideas

Pieper's views are rooted - like a fund of ideas - above all in the scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas and in the teaching of Plato . In sixty years of creative work as a philosopher and writer, Pieper conveyed the wisdom tradition of the West in clear language and demonstrated its ongoing relevance. In the 1960s, Josef Pieper tried to bring the figure of the ancient thinker closer to a broad public with the three television games The Death of Sokrates , Plato's Banquet and Socrates .

Fonts

Original editions

  • Basic forms of social game rules . Herder, Freiburg 1933.
  • The sense of bravery . Hegner, Leipzig 1934
  • About hope . Hegner, Leipzig 1935
  • About the Christian image of man . Hegner, Leipzig 1936
  • Treatise on Prudence . Hegner, Leipzig 1937
  • Discipline and measure. About the fourth cardinal virtue . Hegner, Leipzig 1939
  • Truth of things. An investigation into the anthropology of the High Middle Ages . Kösel, Munich 1947.
  • Leisure and cult . Kösel , Munich 1948
  • What is philosophizing? Four lectures . Kösel, Munich 1948
  • About the end of time. A historical-philosophical meditation . Kösel, Munich 1950
  • About justice . Kösel, Munich 1953
  • Thomas Breviary . Latin-German. Compiled, Germanized and introduced by JP Kösel, Munich 1956
  • Happiness and contemplation . Kösel, Munich 1957
  • Introduction to Thomas Aquinas. Twelve lectures . Kösel, Munich 1958
  • "Scholasticism". Figures and Problems of Medieval Philosophy . Kösel, Munich 1960
  • About faith. A philosophical treatise . Kösel, Munich 1962
  • Consent to the world. A theory of the feast . Kösel, Munich 1963
  • In drinkable light. The negative element in Thomas Aquinas' worldview. Kösel, Munich 1963, second edition (the first edition was published under the title Philosophia negativa , Kösel, Munich 1953).
  • Defense speech for philosophy . Kösel, Munich 1966
  • Death and immortality . Kösel, Munich 1968
  • About love . Kösel, Munich 1972
  • Nobody knew yet. Autobiographical Notes 1904–1945 . Kösel, Munich 1976
  • About the concept of sin . Kösel, Munich 1977
  • Not every day evening. Autobiographical Notes 1945–1964 . Kösel, Munich 1979
  • Spelling Exercises. Essays - speeches - notes . Kösel, Munich 1980
  • Thomas Aquinas. Life and work . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 1981
  • A story like a ray. Autobiographical records since 1964 . Kösel, Munich 1988
  • Philosophy - Contemplation - Wisdom . Johannes, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991

Work edition

A final edition of the work is published by Berthold Wald at Felix Meiner Verlag , Hamburg. It comprises the following volumes:

  • Volume 1: Representations and interpretations: Plato , 2002
  • Volume 2: Representations and interpretations: Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics , 2001
  • Volume 3: Writings on the Concept of Philosophy , 1995
  • Volume 4: Writings on Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics: The Image of Man in the Doctrine of Virtue , 1996
  • Volume 5: Writings on Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics: Basic Structures of Human Existence , 1997
  • Volume 6: Writings on Philosophy of Culture , 1995
  • Volume 7: Religious Philosophical Writings , 2000
  • Volume 8.1: Miscellen (for volumes 1 to 5), index and complete bibliography , 2005
  • Volume 8.2: Miscellings. Register and complete bibliography , 2008
  • Volume 9 (supplementary volume 1): Early sociological writings , 2004
  • Volume 10 (Supplementary Volume 2): Autobiographical Writings , 2003

Edition of all volumes on CD-ROM :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Josef Pieper: Nobody knew it yet , Munich 1976, pp. 74f.
  2. ↑ See in detail Josef Pieper: Werke 8,2 , Hamburg 2008, editorial appendix, pp. 810–815.
  3. ↑ Prize winners. In: www.kath-akademie-bayern.de. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ See Josef Pieper School: History .
  5. ↑ http://www.stadt-muenster.de/ms/strassennamen/josef-pieper-strasse.html#abc

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personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Christian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Elte (Rheine)
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1997
Place of death Muenster