Klaus Jacobi

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Klaus Jacobi (born September 20, 1936 in Cologne ) is a German philosopher and historian of philosophy .

Live and act

Klaus Jacobi studied philosophy , German and history at the universities of Cologne , Munich and Freiburg i. Br . His teachers included Karl-Heinz Volkmann-Schluck , Max Müller , Heinrich Rombach , Hugo Kuhn and Herbert Nesselhauf . From Rombach came the suggestion to deal with the philosophy of Nikolaus von Kues . This resulted in Jacobi's dissertation on the method of Cusan philosophy, with which he received his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Freiburg . From 1969 to 1979 Jacobi worked at the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne as an assistant to Albert Zimmermann . There he completed his habilitation in 1976 with a thesis on modal terms in medieval logic. After substitute professorships at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Duisburg , he accepted the chair of Philosophy II at the University of Freiburg in 1984, where he researched and taught until his retirement in 2001.

Within the Freiburg Collaborative Research Center “Orality and Written Form”, Jacobi was the head of the “ Knowledge Transfer in Scholasticism ” project. He organized symposia on Nikolaus von Kues, Hector-Neri Castañeda , argumentation theory , Meister Eckhart , philosophical dialogues in the Middle Ages. With friends from many countries he shared reading and interpreting the writings of Thomas Aquinas and texts from medieval logic. From 1988 to 1992 Jacobi was an External Examiner at the National University of Ireland .

Jacobi is a historian of philosophy. The focus of his research was on the one hand on the philosophy of the Middle Ages in its ancient roots, its own forms and its fruitful continued effects, and on the other hand on the connections between logic , semantics and ontology . He was one of the first in the German-speaking world to critically study the writings of medieval logicians and to show their value for contemporary philosophy.

In detail, the topics on which he has researched are reflected in the titles of his publications. They show that it was mostly questions of the present that led him to philosophers and texts from the past. He himself said:

“I want to keep a clear eye on the situation into which I got my thoughts. I am interested in statements of possibility because we have to make use of them whenever we are thinking and planning. I find normal use to be highly complex and seek analysis. With this purpose I am referring to philosophical research that was carried out by important philosophers in the past. [...] My aim is to find out what the philosophical distinctions can contribute to clearing up our normal thinking. "

Publications

Monographs

  • The method of the Cusan philosophy . (= Symposion Vol. 31) Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1969 ISBN 3-495-47165-0 . (= Dissertation 1967)
  • The modal terms in the logical writings of William of Shyreswood and in other compendia of the 12th and 13th centuries. Function determination and use in logical analysis . (Studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages XIII) Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1980, ISBN 90-04-06048-0 . (= Habilitation thesis 1975)

Edition

editor

  • Nikolaus von Kues. Introduction to his philosophical thinking . (Philosophy college) Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1969, ISBN 3-495-47242-8 .
  • with Helmut Pape : Thinking and the Structure of the World / Thinking and the Structure of the World. Hector-Neri Castañeda's epistemic Ontology presented and criticized / Hector-Neri Castañeda's epistemic Ontology in presentation and criticism . de Gruyter, 1990, ISBN 978-3-11-011302-0 .
  • Reasoning theory . Scholastic research on the logical and semantic rules of correct inference . 6 parts, each with an introduction by Klaus Jacobi. (Studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, Vol. 18) Brill, Leiden / New York / Cologne 1993, ISBN 90-04-09822-4 .
  • Meister Eckhart: Stations in Life - Speech Situations. (Sources and research on the history of the Dominican Order NF, Vol. 7) Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003127-1 .
  • Read conversations. Philosophical dialogues in the Middle Ages. (ScrptOralia 115). Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-8233-5425-3 .
  • Mysticism, religion and intellectual honesty. Thinking about the theses of Ernst Tugendhat . With Tugendhat's essay " Spirituality, Religion and Mysticism " from 2005. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-495-48518-7

Associate editor of series and magazines

  • with Corneille Henri Kneepkens: Grammatica Speculativa. Language theory and logic of the Middle Ages. Texts and investigations. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt) 1977 ff., ISBN 978-3-7728-0491-5 . (5 volumes available)
  • with Hermann Krings and others: Philosophical Yearbook 1988–2005. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich, ISSN  0031-8183 .

Articles (selection from over 70 publications)

  • Possibility . In: Handbook of basic philosophical concepts. (Ed. By Hermann Krings , Hans Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Wild.) Kösel, Munich 1973, pp. 930–947.
  • Aristotle's introduction of the term “eudamonia” in Book I of Nicomachean Ethics . An answer to a recent inconsistency criticism. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 86 (1979), pp. 300-325.
  • Discussions about predication theory in the logical writings of Petrus Abailardus. In: Trier theological studies 38 (1980), pp. 165-179
  • Aristotle . In: Norbert Hoerster (Hrsg.): Klassiker des philosophischen Denkens , Vol. I. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1982, 7th edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-423-30801-4 .
  • Abelard and Frege. The semantics of words and propositions. In: Atti del convegno internazionale di storia della logica. San Gimignano 1982, Bologna 1983, pp. 31-96.
  • Justify in theology. Investigations on Anselm of Canterbury. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 99 (1992) pp. 225–244.
  • Natural speaking - theoretical language - theological speech. The science of Gilbert of Poitiers. In: Journal for Philosophical Research 49 (1995), pp. 511-528.
  • Language and reality. Theorizing about language in the early 12th century. In: Sten Ebbesen (Ed.): Theories of language in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1995. ISBN 3-87808-673-3 , pp. 77-108.
  • Single - individual - person. Gilbert von Portier's Philosophy of the Individual. In: Jan A. Aertsen and Andreas Speer (eds.): Individual and individuality in the Middle Ages. (Miscellanea mediaevalia 24) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, ISBN 978-3-11-014892-3 (also as an e-book), pp. 3–21.
  • The ability and the possibilities. In: Thomas Buchheim, Corneille Henri Kneepkens and Kuno Lorenz (eds.): Potentiality and Possibility. Modal statements in the history of metaphysics. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt) 2001, ISBN 978-3-7728-2200-1 .
  • Philosophical and theological ethics. A look at Abelard's dialogue . In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 108 (2001), pp. 1–17.
  • Philosophical and theological wisdom. Gilbert von Poitier's interpretation of the "rules" of Boethius ("De hebdomadibus"). In: Rainer Berndt, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann and Ralf MW Stammberger (eds.): "Scientia" and "disciplina": Theory of knowledge and scientific practice in the transition from the 12th to the 13th century. (Erudi Sapientia. Studies on the Middle Ages and its reception history, Vol. III) Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-05-003696-0 .
  • Nomina transcendentia. Studies by logicians of the 12th century on transcategorial terms . In: Martin Pickavé (ed.): The logic of the transcendental. Festschrift for Jan A. Aertsen on his 65th birthday. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-020458-4 , pp. 23-36.
  • Philosophy of Language . In: Jeffrey E. Brower, Kevin Guilfoy (Eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Abelard. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-77247-8 , pp. 126-157.
  • Can a person have several ultimate goals at the same time? A commentary on Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologie, I-II, q. 1, a. 5 . In: Jan Szaif, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Ed.): What is that which is good for people? Human nature and the doctrine of goods. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017206-2 , pp. 191-208.
  • Disputative problem history . In: German Journal for Philosophy 52 (2004), pp. 331–338.
  • Can First Philosophy be operated scientifically? Investigations into the book of apories of the Aristotelian "metaphysics". In: Paulus Engelhardt and Claudius Strube (eds.): Metaphysisches Questions. Colloquium on the basic form of philosophizing. Böhlau Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-17306-7 .

annotation

  1. ↑ Lecture at the XVII. German Congress for Philosophy 1996 in Leipzig. Published under the title “The ability and the possibilities” 2001 (see essays) p. 11.

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SURNAME Jacobi, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, philosophy historian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne