Paul Häberlin

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Paul Häberlin (born February 17, 1878 in Kesswil , † September 29, 1960 in Basel ) was a Swiss philosopher, psychologist and educator.

Life

Paul Häberlin - son of the teacher Jakob - studied theology at the universities in Basel , Göttingen and Berlin . During his studies in Göttingen in 1899 he became a member of the Schwarzburgbund - Association of Burschenschaft Germania . After completing his doctorate and ordination , Häberlin initially worked as a Protestant pastor in Schaffhausen . After reading Kant , he turned away from the pastor's profession in order to study philosophy , natural science and psychology in a second degree . Häberlin earned a middle school teacher diploma in natural sciences and mathematics. In 1903 he received his doctorate in philosophy, botany and zoology.

After teaching at a secondary school in Basel, he was appointed director of the teachers' college in Kreuzlingen in 1904. During this time Paul Häberlin married the painter Paula Baruch (1882–1968). The lifelong friendship with the psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger from Kreuzlingen began in Kreuzlingen .

From 1908 Häberlin was a private lecturer in Basel, from 1912 professor in Bern and from 1922 professor in Basel at a chair for philosophy, psychology and education until his retirement in 1948.

Häberlin was the initiator of the establishment of the Swiss Philosophical Society and a major sponsor of the “Lucerna Foundation”. Also was well known to the psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung , they both grew up in the Kesswil community . Häberlin's third child, Annemarie , became a psychologist in 1917 .

The estate is in the manuscript department of the Basel Public University Library .

position

Häberlin is considered a philosophical anthropologist and a representative of existential philosophy . With his philosophy of the big yes he developed an independent position in which he combined faith with a focus on the world. His basic questions were about the relationship of the individual to beings (ontology) and the possibility of self-experience (anthropology).

Publications

  • Herbert Spencer's "Foundation of Philosophy" , Leipzig 1908
  • Science and philosophy. Your nature and relationship . Volume 1: Science . Kober, Basel 1910
  • Science and philosophy. Your nature and relationship . Volume 2: Philosophy . Kober, Basel 1912
  • The goal of education , Basel 1917
  • Basic questions of education , 1920
  • Body and Soul , 1920
  • On Punishment in Education , 1922
  • The essence of religion , 1922
  • Parents and Children , 1922
  • Psychology of Child Defects , 1922
  • The Goal of Moral Education , 1923
  • The mind and the drives. An elementary psychology . Kober, Basel 1924
  • The goal of education , 1925
  • The character , 1925
  • About marriage , 1925
  • The good . Basel, 1926
  • The secret of reality . Kober, Basel 1927
  • Friendship , 1927
  • The suggestion . Kober, Basel a. Leipzig 1927
  • Me and you , 1928
  • General aesthetics . Kober, Basel a. Leipzig 1929
  • The wonderful. Twelve Reflections on Religion , 1930
  • Philosophy as the Adventure of the Spirit , 1930
  • On Conscience , 2nd edition 1930
  • The essence of philosophy. An introduction , Munich 1934
  • Against the demon. An ethical orientation , Zurich 1935
  • Guide to Psychology , 1937
  • Natural philosophical considerations , (Volume 1: Unity and Multiplicity , 1939; Volume 2: Being and Becoming , 1940)
  • Instead of an autobiography , 1959
  • The human being. A philosophical anthropology , 1941
  • Ethics in the floor plan , 1946
  • Logic in the floor plan , 1947
  • Feelings of inferiority. Nature, origin, prevention, overcoming , Zurich 1947
  • Philosophia Perennis , 1952
  • From my hut book , 1956
  • Life and form of life. Prolegomena to a Universal Biology , 1957
  • Instead of an autobiography , 1959
  • The evil. Origin and meaning , 1960

literature

  • Peter Kamm: Paul Häberlin. Life and work . Vol. 1: The apprenticeship and wandering years (1878-1922) u. Vol. 2: The time of the master craftsman (1922–1960) . Schweizer Spiegel, Zurich 1977 ISBN 3-7270-1116-5 u. 1981 ISBN 3-7270-1126-2
  • Helmut Kuhn:  Häberlin, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 421 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jeannine Luczak (Ed.): Häberlin for today. Selected passages from the complete works of Paul Häberlin (1878–1960) . Schwabe & Co. 2004, ISBN 3796520855
  • Jeannine Luczak (Ed.): Paul Häberlin - Ludwig Binswanger. Correspondence 1908–1960 (with letters from Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Frank and Eugen Bleuler), 1998, ISBN 3-7965-1030-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Necrology for Paul Häberlin. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 36, 1961, p. 119 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
  2. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 76 No. 1018.

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personal data
SURNAME Häberlin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Kesswil
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1960
Place of death Basel