Josef de Vries

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Josef de Vries

Josef de Vries (born January 3, 1898 in Ochtrup , † December 26, 1989 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit and philosopher .

He was a classic representative of the philosophy of neo-scholasticism , which was taught in the Pullacher Berchmanskolleg until the 1970s. He became known v. a. for his epistemology ( basic questions of knowledge ) and his examination of scholasticism ( basic concepts of scholasticism ).

Life

Josef de Vries was born as the eldest of five children of the newspaper editor Wilhelm de Vries and his wife Maria. After primary school in Saarbrücken , Josef de Vries attended the humanistic grammar school in Neuss ( Quirinus grammar school ) and Essen , where he graduated from high school in 1917 and then entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in ’s-Heerenberg in the Netherlands . From autumn 1919 he studied philosophy in Valkenburg , where he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy three years later. After a two-year stay in Rome as a tutor at the Germanicum and philosophical studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University , de Vries returned to Valkenburg, where he studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1927. There he took up teaching two years later, which he continued from 1934 as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the Jesuits in Pullach.

Since 1929, de Vries has been an employee and since 1932 a member of the editorial board of the journal Scholastik , which has been published under the name Theologie und Philosophie (ThPh) since 1966 and will be continued as a journal for theology and philosophy from 2021 together with the Zeitschrift für Catholic Theologie (ZKTh) . In addition to numerous articles, he published over eight hundred book reviews in it. From 1942 to 1971 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty and supervised the young Jesuits as prefect of studies. Even in old age, de Vries held lectures at the University of Philosophy in Munich and in 1980 published his two main works, Basic Concepts of Scholasticism and Basic Questions of Knowledge .

He was a brother of Wilhelm de Vries .

Works (selection)

  • Thinking and being. A structure of epistemology , Freiburg / Br. 1937
  • Logica - cui Praemittitur - Introductio in Philosophiam , Pullach prope Monachium, February 8, 1946
  • Basic questions of knowledge , Johannes Berchmans Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-87056-025-8 ( on the web )
  • Basic concepts of scholasticism , Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 3rd edition 1980


literature

  • Julius Oswald (Hrsg.): Schule Des Denkens: 75 years of the Philosophical Faculty of the Jesuits in Pullach and Munich , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Kölm 2000, ISBN 3-17-016701-4

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personal data
SURNAME Vries, Josef de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Ochtrup
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1989
Place of death Munich