Markus Schmitz (philosopher)
Markus Schmitz (born October 10, 1963 in Darmstadt ; † January 8, 2009 there ) was a German philosopher .
Life
Schmitz studied Greek, Latin and philosophy in Mainz and Pavia from 1982 to 1990 and received his doctorate in Marburg in 1994 . From 1994 to 2000 he was assistant for Greek studies at the University of Rostock . From 2000 he held teaching positions at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Rostock. From 2005 he was Studienassessor and teacher of Greek, Latin, philosophy at the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Braunschweig . In 2007 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Rostock with the habilitation thesis Rhetorical and Technical Transformation of Platonic-Aristotelian Analysis in Mathematics and Philosophy of Modern Times . After the inaugural lecture in 2007 on Ernst Nolte's Heidegger interpretation. He taught a note on the historians' dispute as a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Rostock.
His main research interests were the philosophical foundations of mathematics, ancient philosophy, ancient philosophy of science and the ultimate foundation of ethics, also in the political arena (probation in times of totalitarianism).
Fonts (selection)
- Euclid's geometry and its mathematical-theoretical foundation in the Neo-Platonic philosophy of Proclus (= Epistemata. Würzburg scientific writings. Volume 212). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-8260-1268-2 (also dissertation, Marburg 1994).
- Edited by Wolfgang Bernard and Steffen Kammler: Analysis - a heuristic of scientific knowledge. Platonic-Aristotelian methodology against the background of its rhetorical-technically influenced change in mathematics and philosophy of the modern age . Alber, Freiburg et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-495-48438-8 (also habilitation thesis, Rostock 2007).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2009 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |