Ludvík Armbruster
Ludvík Armbruster SJ (born May 16, 1928 in Prague ), Austrian citizen of Czech nationality, is a Jesuit and philosopher .
Life
From 1934 to 1939 he attended the reformed general school in Nusle , until 1947 the state high school in Vyšehrad . After graduating from high school, he joined the Jesuits . This was followed by studying theology in Děčín . In 1950 he was imprisoned and expatriated as an undesirable foreigner. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome . He also learned Japanese and attended Sophia University in Tokyo , where he received his doctorate in philosophy . Armbruster then studied at the Philosophical-Theological College Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main and graduated in Catholic theology in 1960. In Frankfurt am Main he was ordained a priest in 1959 .
Ludvik Armbruster returned to Japan in 1961 and taught for 36 years, first as a lecturer, later as an "associated professor" and from 1969 as a full professor of philosophy at the Catholic Sophia University in Tokyo. In addition, he led the seminary in Tokyo from 1965 to 1970 and also took over the management of the central library of Sophia University from 1975 to 1983. Since 1990 he has been visiting the Czech Republic regularly . In 1999 he returned to his Czech homeland.
In 2002 he received the call to the Charles University in Prague , Faculty of Theology to promote Catholic dean of the reconstruction.
In 2006 Armbruster was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class for his life's work.
Act
His research is shaped by life in a completely foreign environment under foreign religions. His philosophical views are answers to current questions in post-war Japan . He saw his task at the Japanese university in conveying modern European ideas. He concentrated above all on the German idealism of Immanuel Kant and Hegel and the phenomenology and existentialism of their students.
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Publications in Japan
(German translation of the title)
- Object and transcendence at Jaspers . His concept of the object and the possibility of metaphysics , Innsbruck 1957.
- Concept of time in the late Schellinger, Tokyo 1963
- On the border between transcendence and immanence , Tokyo 1973
- Jesuits, History of European Philosophy, Tokyo 1988
- Nietzsche on the history of religion, Tokyo 1980
- Faith in the Context of Scientific Civilization, Tokyo 1988
- The Role of the Graduate School in Today's Mass Society, Tokyo 1989
- The Role of Culture in the Technological Society, Technology's Challenge for Mankind, Tokyo 1990
- The religious situation at the time of the upheaval of the century, Vienna at the end of the 19th century, Tokyo 1990
- Man viewed from the inside, Tokyo 1993.
Newspaper articles
- Jaspers and Christianity, (Tokyo) 1958
- Truth and Myth, (Tokyo) 1960
- Dialectic of Freedom, (Tokyo) 1961
- The Mind and Existence of Schellinger's Late Philosophy, (Tokyo) 1965
- Institution and Utopia, Tetsugaku Zasshi (Tokyo) 1971
- Hermeneutic Existence and Historical Reality, Riso (Tokyo) 1974
- Aporia of Faith and Progress, Hito to kokudo (Tokyo) 1976
- The radical evil in Kant, Gendai shiso (Tokyo) 1994
- Philosophy and Belief, Tetsugaku (Tokyo) 1995
- Schelling a Christianity, Schelling nempo (Tokyo) 1996.
Translations
- Gijutsuron (The Technique and the Turn), Tokyo 1965.
Published as a lecturer at the Charles University
- Problémy křesťanské filosofie v asijské perspective. In: Teologické texty, Volume 15, No. 2, 2004, pages 55–56,
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Armbruster, Ludvík |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Armbruster, Ludvík SJ; Armbruster, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech religious and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |