Karl Ulmer

Karl Ulmer (born August 24, 1915 in Hamburg , † April 13, 1981 in Vienna ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Ulmer came from a Hamburg merchant and scholarly family. As a student he attended the Johanneum Hamburg . Inspired by reading Kant , Hegel and Kierkegaard , he decided to study philosophy when he was twenty. He studied philosophy, history and German in Hamburg, Cologne and Freiburg, but also listened to mathematics and physics. During his military service he received his doctorate in 1940 in Cologne with a thesis on "The meaning of the copula in Aristotle" and completed his habilitation in 1944 with Martin Heidegger on "Truth, art and nature in Aristotle. A contribution to the elucidation of the metaphysical origin of modern technology ”. In 1957 Ulmer became associate professor and in 1962 full professor of philosophy in Tübingen . In 1970 he moved to the University of Vienna as a professor of philosophy .

philosophy

Ulmer's interests were interdisciplinary research and the connection between philosophy and the natural sciences. So he dealt with the philosophical interpretation of the history of the natural sciences. On the way from Aristotle to Galileo , natural science in particular leads to a changed understanding of beings as such. In Vienna in particular, he turned to questions relating to the human environment in the 20th century with all its catastrophes . With the basic terms “world beings” and “world understanding” he looked for an orientation as “taking hold” in the world beyond metaphysics .

Ulmer was the academic teacher of Hans Peter Balmer , Wilhelm Lütterfelds , Werner Stegmaier , Bernhard Taureck , Ernst Tugendhat , Norbert Wokart , Heimo Hofmeister , and others. a.

Works

• Truth, Art and Nature in Aristotle. A contribution to the elucidation of the metaphysical origin of modern technology , 1954
• From the matter of philosophy , 1959
• Nietzsche. Unity and meaning of his work , 1962
• The sciences and the truth. A research accountancy report , 1966

• Philosophy of the modern world , 1972
• (Ed. With Wolf Häfele and Werner Stegmaier ): Conditions of the future. a scientific-philosophical dialogue , 1987

literature

• Helmut Kohlenberger and Wilhelm Lütterfelds (eds.): Of the necessity of philosophy in the present . Festschrift for Karl Ulmer on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Oldenbourg, Vienna 1976
• Johannes Vorlaufer:  Ulmer, Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 887-891.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Ulmer in the catalog of the German National Library