Manfred Moritz

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Manfred Moritz (born June 4, 1909 in Berlin ; † December 5, 1990 in Lund ) was a philosopher of German descent who emigrated to Sweden and who is best known for his work on Immanuel Kant and as a legal philosopher.

Life

Biographical information about Manfred Moritz is scarce, while his extensive work continues to be received. He was in Berlin in 1933 with a thesis on Kant for Dr. phil. PhD: The subjective morality and the objective morality in the ethics of Kant . Feidel-Mertz reports that “in 1934, as a young scientist, he [emigrated] to Sweden, where he had connections. At the Zionist-oriented Kristinehov boarding school he worked as a teacher and headmaster until 1941. He then studied philosophy again and completed his studies in 1951 with a habilitation. It sounds a bit more differentiated with Goran Hermerén, who does not mention the time in Kristinehov , but then, referring to Moritz arrival in Sweden, explains: “A few years later he taught at Gothenburg . From 1944 and on he gave lectures and seminars at Lund University , where in 1951 he became docent in practical philosophy and in 1959 was appointed to the chair in that discipline. “That he taught in Lund until 1979 is, apart from the mention of his Year of death, practically the last biographical reference to Manfred Moritz.

Services

Feidel-Mertz gives no further information about Moritz, who worked for about seven years at the Kristinehov boarding school . On the other hand, the discussions with his philosophy are more detailed. For the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy he was “Sweden's foremost expert on Kant's ethics after Hägerström . He also further developed Wesley Hohfeld's system of basic legal concepts, as did Kanger later. "Enrico Pattaro and Corrado Roversi go into this in more detail:

Moritz Merit for the Uppsala School of Philosophy
Moritz had a considerable role in helping to keep the Uppsala school to some extent alive at a time when its influence had been rapidly dwindling, after the death of Hägerströrn and his immediate followers. He embraced Hägerström's value nihilism in ethics and in legal philosophy and would therefore come to repudiate deontic logic. The possibility of a logic of norms had already been dismissed by Hedenius, and Moritz emphasized this point even more. According to Hägerström himself, his emotive theory implied the impossibility of a logic of value statements and normative statements. Moritz was vigorous in arguing for this impossibility, and his criticism was directed specifically at modern versions of deontic logic. [..]
Apart from an article on the practical syllogism and on juristic thinking (Moritz 1954), Moritz's two most important contributions in legal philosophy are his monograph on the concept of a juristic person (Moritz T971) and his work Über Hohfelds System der basic legal concepts (On Hohlfeld's system of fundamental legal concepts: Moritz 1960). In the latter work, he takes up the issue of how best to understand the set of four fundamental legal conceptions of a right expounded by the American jurist W, N. Hohfeld. This question would subsequently also be addressed by Stig Kanger and Lars Lindahl.		 Moritz played an important role in keeping the Uppsala School alive to a certain extent when its influence rapidly declined after the death of Hägerströrn and his immediate successors. He adopted Hägerström's nihilism of values ​​in ethics and legal philosophy and therefore rejected deontic logic . The possibility of a logic of norms had already been rejected by Hedenius, and Moritz emphasizes this even more. According to Hägerström himself, his theory, which appeals to the feeling, meant the impossibility of a logic of value judgments and normative statements. Moritz argued vigorously for this impossibility, and his criticism focused specifically on modern versions of deontic logic. [..]

Apart from an article on the practical syllogism and the legal thinking (Moritz 1954), are Moritz two most important posts in legal philosophy his monograph on the concept of legal person (Moritz T971) and his work over Hohfelds system of juridical Basic terms (On Hohlfeld's system of fundamental legal concepts: Moritz 1960). In the last-named work he deals with the question of how one can understand the four fundamental concepts of law developed by the American lawyer WN Hohfeld. This question was later to be addressed by Stig Kanger and Lars Lindahl.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Manfred Moritz was the leading force in the Nordic association for legal philosophy , which by that time had become the Nordic section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) .

Works

His dissertation from 1933 has already been mentioned. The large number of his other works are accessible via the catalog of the German National Library or the WorldCat (see under web links).

literature

  • Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (ed.): Schools in exile. The repressed pedagogy after 1933. rororo, Reinbek, 1983, ISBN 3-499-17789-7
  • Enrico Pattaro and Corrado Roversi: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, Volume 12, Legal philosophy in the twentieth century: The civil law world. Tome 1, Language areas, Springer, Dordrecht, 2016, ISBN 9789400714793

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Moritz in: www.svenskagravar.se; accessed on October 3, 2018
  2. ^ A b c Enrico Pattaro and Corrado Roversi: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, Volume 12, pp. 705-706
  3. ↑ Proof in the DNB catalog
  4. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz (ed.): Schools in Exile , p. 245
  5. ↑ GORAN HERMERÉN: Manfred Moritz (1909–1990)
  6. ↑ Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (web link). About Wesley Hohfeld: Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld in the WIKIPEDIA-EN and Hohfeld scheme
  7. ↑ Lars Lindahl was a student of Stig Kanger.
  8. ^ History of the IVR
personal data
SURNAME Moritz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish legal philosopher of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1990
Place of death Lund