Josef Seifert (philosopher)

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Josef Maria Seifert (born January 6, 1945 ) is an Austrian philosopher and author .

Life

Josef Seifert grew up in Salzburg . He graduated from the Archdiocese of Salzburg in 1963 and studied philosophy at the University of Salzburg from 1963 to 1969 . In 1969 he became the knowledge of objective truth in Salzburg with the work . The transcendence of man in knowledge. with distinction as Dr. phil. PhD ; In 1975 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the text Body and Soul. A contribution to philosophical anthropology .

From 1969 to 1973 Seifert was assistant professor at the University of Salzburg, from 1972 to 1981 also professor (assistant professor and then associate professor with tenure) and from 1972 to 1981 director of the master's and doctoral program at the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas , USA .

Seifert was the rector of the International Academy of Philosophy in Irving , Texas, from its founding in 1980, from 1986 to 2007 rector of the International Academy of Philosophy (IAP) in the Principality of Liechtenstein and from 2004 to 2011 rector of the IAP at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago de Chile and has the title of "Founding Rector of the IAP". From 2012 to 2017 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Academia Internacional de Filosofía - Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein . Archbishop Martínez Fernández of Granada dismissed him from this position in 2017 because he repeatedly criticized the Pope's letter Amoris laetitia on marriage and family.

Seifert is Roman Catholic , married and has six children.

Act

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The philosophical publications of Seifert pursue the goal of a new foundation of philosophical realism as well as a personalistic anthropology, metaphysics and ethics on a phenomenological basis. Seifert thus stands in the tradition of the so-called realistic phenomenology of early Husserl (logical investigations) and of Adolf Reinach , Alexander Pfänder , Balduin Schwarz and Dietrich von Hildebrand . In particular, he deals with the critical philosophy of Kant and the transcendental phenomenology of Husserl , whose purely immanentist interpretation of human knowledge he tries to demonstrate fundamental errors. Other publications deal with: a. with the mind-body problem , with philosophical anthropology , philosophy of life , ontology , metaphysics and philosophy of religion as well as with questions of medical ethics and general ethics.

With regard to the mind-body problem, Seifert advocates a bipolar dualism, which, despite the body-bondage and subjectivity of individual human consciousness and the dependence on the brain and the nervous system, at least the structures of the mind in theoretical thinking, judging and reasoning as well as in practical Thinking, planning, wanting and acting grants a certain autonomy. Despite the obvious fact of the localization of the neural correlates of the spiritual in the human brain (and nervous system) with the simultaneous localization of the brain as a control organ in a unified, objectifiable body or subjectively experienceable body of the human person, according to Seifert it is neither possible for fundamental philosophical reasons To predict mental structures in a deterministic way (as determinists believe), let alone reduce them to neuronal processes in the brain and nervous system (as neuroscientific reductionists believe). In recent years Seifert has defended his dualistic position and defense of the possibility and reality of free will, especially against the experiments and theories of the neuroscientist Benjamin Libet .

In his book What is Life? On the Originality, Irreducibility and Value of Life he defended the independence and irreducibility of living things in plants, animals and humans against physicalistic reductionism and in particular the paramount value of human life and the dignity of the individual human person. In doing so, he took up his earlier book Essere e Persona , which has so far only appeared in Italian and contains the foundation of a personalistic philosophy of being, according to which the human person represents the actual being and the highest form of being among all earthly living beings.

Seifert is also the author of a chess philosophy that is not a guide for chess players, but an introduction to the philosophy of the game of chess. In it he shows on the philosophical basis of his realistic phenomenology a. a. that Wittgenstein's linguistic philosophical considerations do not carry very far in the comparison of language games with chess, and that Kant's conception of a general a priori of the necessities of looking and thinking in the sense of a general subjectivity in the direction of an objective a priori of the noumenal "laws of nature" and empirically given necessary facts can be exceeded. That is why it is a book that is not only worth reading for lovers of the game of chess with a philosophical interest, but for all those interested in philosophy who are interested in an applied introduction to the modes of thinking and knowledge claims of realistic phenomenology following the famous Logical Investigations by Edmund Husserl interested.

Since 2000 he (together with C. Gueye) has published an anthology on Realistic Phenomenology, a treatise on the method of philosophizing in the sense of Realistic Phenomenology ( Discours des Methodes ). This book follows on from his earlier treatise Back to Things in Themselves. A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism as well as his main ontological work Sein und Wesen . Then he wrote two volumes on the philosophical understanding of truth, in which u. a. all philosophical concepts of truth and all contemporary conceptions of truth are presented, discussed and criticized.

One of his most important publications on ethics is his inaugural lecture "What is and what motivates a moral act?" and the first volume of a foundation on medical ethics, The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure. Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine , of which only the first volume has been published so far. With regard to the philosophy of law , he has an anthology on natural law entitled How do you know natural law? published. His two main works on the philosophy of religion are: God as proof of God , which defends the ontological proof of God (Anselm, Descartes, Hegel) and was also translated into Arabic, as well as Knowledge of the Perfect. Ways of reason to God , which u. a. also deals with the paradigmatic discussion of the proofs of God in Thomas Aquinas.

As a student, Seifert founded an amateur stage (Das Salzburger Zimmertheater), from whose members two future castle actors emerged. He is also the author of a previously unpublished novel. Seifert is the author of over 300 articles in 12 languages. He is the founder and editor of the yearbook “Aletheia” and the philosophical series Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology as well as the studies of the “International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein”.

Memberships

Fonts

  • Knowledge of objective truth (Salzburg / Munich 1972)
  • Body and soul (Salzburg / Munich 1973)
  • What is and what motivates a moral act? (Salzburg / Munich 1976); also in spanish.
  • The Mind-Body Problem in Current Philosophical Discussion (Darmstadt 1979)
  • Back to Things in Themselves. A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism (London / Boston: 1987)
  • Eat e persona. Verso una fondazione fenomenologica di una metafisica classica e personalistica . (Milan: 1989)
  • Chess Philosophy (Darmstadt 1989)
  • Thanks and gratitude (Heidelberg 1992)
  • Being and being (Heidelberg 1996)
  • Human Responsibility in a Global Age (Heidelberg 1996)
  • Viktor E. Frankl, Sense as an Anthropological Category. Meaning as an Anthropological Category (Heidelberg: 1996)
  • What is life? On the Originality, Irreducibility and Value of Life (Amsterdam: 1997)
  • How do you know natural law? (Heidelberg 1998)
  • Dietrich von Hildebrand's fight against National Socialism (Heidelberg 1998)
  • God as proof of God (Heidelberg 1996/2000, also in Arabic (Al Maghrib - Bayrouth: 2001))
  • Ritornare a Platone (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000)
  • Overcoming the scandal of pure reason. The consistency of reality - despite Kant (Freiburg 2001), 2007 also in Spanish.
  • The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure. Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine . Vol. 1 (New York: 2004) (E-Book Boston: 2005).
  • Touch of cultures. The role of realistic phenomenology in the dialogue between religions and civilizations, in Arabic (Rabat: 2004)
  • Anthology of realistic phenomenology / Антология реалистической феноменологии (М., Институт философии, теологии и истории: 2006 Фомы / Moscow Фсв.).)
  • Discours des méthodes. Los métodos de la filosofía y la fenomenología realista (Madrid: 2008)
  • Discours des Méthodes. The Methods of Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology . (Frankfurt / Paris / New Brunswick: 2008)
  • The essence of truth and the person. De veritate - On Truth Vol. I (Frankfurt / Paris / Ebikon / Lancaster / New Brunswick: Ontos-Verlag, 2008)
  • The dispute over the truth. Truth and theories of truth. De Veritate - On Truth , Vol. II (Frankfurt / Paris / New Brunswick: 2008)
  • Knowledge of the perfect. Ways of reason to God . (Bonn: Lepanto Verlag 2010).
  • Errors and contradictions in general-human, cultural-historical and individual relativism In: Marian Gruber (ed.), Dictatorship of Relativism. The struggle for the absolute truth for the future of Europe . Be & Be-Verlag, Heiligenkreuz 2014, first published in AEMAET 1 (2012), pp. 32–88 [1]
  • Undoubted knowledge of the truth. Beyond skepticism and the dictatorship of relativism. Patrimonium-Verlag, Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86417-038-6 .
  • Cheerful philosophy. Philosophizing with Johann Nestroy, the funniest Austrian philosopher. Patrimonium-Verlag, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86417-052-2 .
  • The absurdity of relativism. Liberation from his dictatorship. Patrimonium-Verlag, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86417-053-9 .
  • God's third temptation or the gospel of the devil. Patrimonium-Verlag, Aachen 2018. ISBN 978-3-86417-108-6 .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archbishop Fires renowned Catholic philosopher for questioning Pope Francis. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . domradio.de: Debate about Amoris laetitia continues , 29 September 2017.
  2. ↑ The mind-body problem and the current philosophical discussion. A critical-systematic analysis, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft ²1989
  3. ^ Josef Seifert : (2013). Does man have free will? Answer to Libet's challenge . AEMAET, 2 , 2-47.
  4. ↑ What is Life? The Originality, Irreducibility, and Value of Life, New York / Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1997, pp. 9-109
  5. ↑ Eat e Persona. Verso una Fondazione fenomenologica di una Metafisica classica e personalistica, Milan: Vita e Pensiero 1989
  6. ↑ Schachphilosophie, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1989
  7. ↑ Anthology of realistic phenomenology, Frankfurt a. M .: Ontos 2006
  8. ↑ Discours des Méthodes. The Methods of Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology, Frankfurt / Paris / New Brunswick: Ontos 2008
  9. ↑ Back to Things in Themselves. A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism, London: Routledge 1987
  10. ^ Being and being: Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter 1996
  11. ↑ The essence of truth and the person. De veritate - On Truth, Vol. I, Frankfurt a. M .: Ontos 2008; The dispute over the truth. Truth and theories of truth. De Veritate - On Truth, Vol. II, Frankfurt: Ontos 2008
  12. ↑ What is and what motivates a moral act ?, Salzburg: Universitätsverlag A. Pustet 1976
  13. ^ The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure. Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine. Vol. 1, New York: 2004, Boston: 2005
  14. ↑ How do you recognize natural law? Heidelberg: University Press C. Winter 1998
  15. ↑ Gott als Gottesbeweis, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C.Winter 1996/2000; Arabic: Al Maghrib - Bayrouth: 2001
  16. ↑ Knowledge of the perfect. Paths of Reason to God, Bonn: Lepanto 2010
  17. ↑ http://www.stiftung-oekologie-u-demokratie.de/w/kuratorium-2/
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Josef Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1945