Paul Arthur Schilpp

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Paul Arthur Schilpp (born February 6, 1897 in Dillenburg , † September 6, 1993 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American philosopher and Methodist clergyman.

Life

Paul Arthur Schilpp came to the American Midwest with his father, a Methodist minister, in 1913 and attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, teaching himself English at school. In 1916 he received his bachelor's degree and in 1918 he became a pastor at Calvary Church in Terre Haute , Indiana . After four years he went to the Garrett Theological Seminary, where he received a bachelor's degree in theology (BD) in 1922, and to Northwestern University , where he received a master's degree in philosophy and theology. He also spent a semester at the University of California, Berkeley (1924) and attended the University of Munich in 1928. In 1936 he received his doctorate on Immanuel Kant from Stanford University (A Critical Analysis of Kant's Ethical Thought of the Pre-Critical Period).

In 1922/23 he taught at the College of Puget Sound , but was dismissed there because of his religious views, which the superiors seemed too radical. From 1923 to 1936 he taught at the College of the Pacific in California, where he was dismissed in 1936 for similar reasons ("radical" religious and political views).

In 1936 he became an associate professor and in 1950 professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. In 1948 he was the first US professor to be visiting professor at the University of Munich after the war. 1950 to 1951 he taught at various universities in India and Ceylon.

He stayed at Northwestern University for 30 years, though he was often offensive with his views. For example, in an obituary for Franklin D. Roosevelt , he condemned his leading role in the United States' participation in the Second World War, which aroused outrage among students. In 1965 he retired and taught again until 1980 introductory philosophy courses at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He continued to serve as a Methodist pastor, but here too he often had dissenting views from his more conventional colleagues. He was an advocate of world government and against nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and on the council of the United World Federalists and on the national council of the anti-nuclear group SANE.

He received four honorary doctorates (Baldwin-Wallace College, Springfield College in Massachusetts, Kent State University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale).

He was married twice. He had four children with his first wife, Louise Gruenholz. In 1950 he married the journalist Madelon Golden, with whom he adopted two children.

Library of Living Philosophers

From 1939 to 1981 he published the Library of Living Philosophers , in which the philosopher in question himself contributed an intellectual autobiography, and secondary authors in a kind of dialogue wrote essays on the work of the philosopher, who in turn published comments on it. After him until 2001 Lewis Edwin Hahn and then Randall Auxier were the editors. It was published by Northwestern University, 1952 to 1959 by Tudor Publishing and then by Open Court. So far, volumes have appeared on:

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Website at Open Court
personal data
SURNAME Schilpp, Paul Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1993
Place of death St. Louis