Karl-Heinz Ilting

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Karl-Heinz Ilting (born March 5, 1925 in Bocholt ; † August 25, 1984 in Sankt Ingbert ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

After participating in the Second World War and imprisonment, Ilting studied philosophy and classical philology in Bonn from 1946. In 1949 he did his doctorate under Erich Rothacker ( The problem of a phenomenological anthropology ) in Bonn. From 1950 he was a teacher in Bonn. Since 1959 he has been the director of studies and lecturer at the Place of Encounter (Institute for Political Education) in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1961 he became an assistant at the Philosophical Seminar in Kiel, where he qualified as a professor on Plato in 1962 . Since 1966 he has taught as a professor of philosophy at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He made a name for himself in particular as a researcher on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , especially on his legal philosophy , and on natural law . Hegel initiated a process that led to the "collapse of rational natural law" and the "relativization of the idea of ​​a universal morality". As a defender of universal human rights, Hegel argued: "Man is valid because he is a person, not because he is a Jew, Catholic, Protestant, German, Italian." In the preface to the philosophy of law there is the sentence: "What is reasonable is." really; and what is real is sensible. ”Ilting's thesis (1973) was that Hegel's printed preface was a camouflage manuscript for the censors. In fact, Hegel only created this version after a journalist loyal to the state reported to the Prussian government. For Ilting, Kant represented the climax of practical philosophy of the modern age. According to Kant, the "decline of the idea of ​​a universal ethics" begins. In his book Natural Law and Morality (1983), Ilting "explicitly relied on the Kantian tradition right down to the formulation" and was consistently critical of Hegel. Natural law and morality is "a book that one must wish that it goes into the classical stock of philosophical education," wrote Robert Zimmer .

Ilting also published a teacher's comment on Ciceros De officiis . He dedicated his essay on Hegel's analysis of Aristotelian politics to Carl Schmitt on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

  • Essays on Hegel , Frankfurt / M. 2006
  • Basic questions of practical philosophy , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1993
  • Art. Natural law , in: O. Brunner. (Ed.): Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe , Stuttgart 2004, Vol. 4 ,. 245-313
  • Natural law and morality. Conceptual historical studies , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-91249-5
  • (Ed.) GWF Hegel, The Philosophy of Law: The Notes Wannenmann (Heidelberg 1817/18) and Homeyer (Berlin 1818/19) , edited, introduced and explained by Karl-Heinz Ilting, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983 ISBN 978- 3-608-91061-2
  • (Ed.) GWF Hegel, Naturphilosophie. The lecture from 1819-1820 , in connection with K.-H. Ilting edited by M. Gies, Bibliopolis, Napoli 1982, ISBN 88-7088-049-4
  • (Ed.) GWF Hegel, Philosophy of Religion. The lecture of 1821 , edited by K.-H. Ilting, Bibliopolis, Napoli 1978, ISBN 88-7088-040-0
  • The validity of moral norms . In: Wolfgang Kuhlmann u. Dietrich Böhler : Communication and reflection: To discuss the transcendental pragmatics . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1982, pp. 612-648
  • The "Philosophy of Law" of 1820 and Hegel's lectures on the Philosophy of Law (introduction) , Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1973

literature

  • For the reconstruction of practical philosophy: memorial for Karl-Heinz Ilting , ed. v. Karl-Otto Apel in connection with Riccardo Pozzo , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1990
  • DBE Vol. 5 (2006) p. 239.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 92 (1985) 397.
  2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 92 (1985) 399.
  3. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 92 (1985) 397.
  4. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 92 (1985) 400.
  5. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 71 (1963) 38.

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personal data
SURNAME Ilting, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1984
Place of death Saint Ingbert