Reinhard Lauth

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Reinhard Lauth (born August 11, 1919 in Oberhausen / Rhineland; † August 23, 2007 in Munich ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Lauth studied from 1938 to 1942 philosophy with minors in Romance languages and physiology and was in 1942 with a thesis about the nature of knowledge, meaning and fulfillment in modern French literature and visual arts for PhD. PhD . In 1944 he was with a study on the absorption of intradermal Kochsalzquaddel for skin diseases to Dr. med. PhD at the University of Kiel . In 1948 he completed his habilitation in philosophy with two works, "The question of the meaning of existence" and "The philosophy of Dostoevsky".

In 1954 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Munich . 1978 took place call on the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Munich. He was also the first German after World War II in 1968 visiting professor at Israeli universities in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem . Among other things, he also taught at the Sorbonne in Paris for some time .

Lauth died on August 23, 2007 at the age of 88 after a long illness in Munich.

Act

Reinhard Lauth mainly dealt with questions of transcendental philosophy, starting from the philosophy of German idealism , namely the system of Johann Gottlieb Fichte . Lauth was together with Aloys Wenzl editor of the Fichte Complete Edition of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In religious terms he distinguished himself as a strict opponent of the reforms within the Roman Catholic Church in the course of the Second Vatican Council . No evidence of source. At least at times he appeared publicly as a supporter of the so-called sedisvakantist position . Source evidence is missing

In 2003 he was awarded the Silver Medal of Merit of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Wilhelm G. Jacobs is one of his students .

Fonts

  • The philosophy of Dostoevsky in a systematic representation. [Habilitation thesis Munich 1948] Munich: Piper 1950, ISBN 3-492-01372-4
  • The question of the meaning of existence. Munich: JA Barth, 1953
  • To the idea of ​​the transcendental philosophy. 1965
  • The absolute unhistory of truth. 1966
  • Concept, justification and justification of philosophy. Munich; Salzburg: Blow 1967
  • Ethics unfolded in its foundation from principles. 1969
  • The emergence of Schelling's philosophy of identity in dealing with Fichte's doctrine of science: (1795–1801). Freiburg (Breisgau), Munich: Alber 1975, ISBN 3-495-47322-X
  • Theory of the Philosophical Argument. 1979
  • The constitution of time in consciousness. Hamburg: Meiner 1981, ISBN 3-7873-0506-8
  • Fichte's transcendental doctrine of nature according to the principles of science. 1984
  • Dostoevsky and his century. 1986
  • Hegel before the science of science. 1987
  • Transcendental lines of development from Descartes to Marx and Dostoevsky. Hamburg: Meiner 1989, ISBN 3-7873-0941-1
  • What does Dostoyevsky tell us today? in Deutsche Hochschuledition 14, Munich Ars Una 1990, Italian translation edited by M. Ivaldo: Dostoevskij e la Verità , Il ramo, Rapallo 2005.
  • Reasonable penetration of reality: Fichte and his surroundings. Munich: Ars Una 1994, ISBN 3-89391-331-9
  • Descartes' conception of the system of philosophy. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1998, ISBN 3-7728-1975-3
  • Abraham and the children of his covenant with God. Munich: Jerrentrup 2003, ISBN 3-935990-14-6

literature

  • Erich Fuchs: Memory of Reinhard Lauth (1919–2007). In: Akademie Aktuell 4/2007, pp. 39–41 ( digitized version ).
  • Christian Jerrentrup: Bibliography Reinhard Lauth. 2., completely revised u. exp. Edition, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-935990-13-8 , PDF of the 1st edition, 2002 .
  • Klaus Hammacher, Albert Mues (ed.): Renewal of the transcendental philosophy following Kant and Fichte: Reinhard Lauth on his 60th birthday. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1979, ISBN 3-7728-0777-1 .
  • Lorenz Gadient: Truth as a call to freedom: Hans Urs Balthasar's theodramatic concept of knowledge in a comparative discussion with Reinhard Lauth's transcendental philosophical criticism of knowledge. EOS, St. Ottilien 1999, ISBN 3-88096-255-3 .
  • Tommaso Valentini: Un sistema di filosofia trascendentale ante litteram. Reinhard Lauth interprete di Descartes , in Tommaso Valentini: I fondamenti della libertà in JG Fichte. Studi sul primato del pratico , Presentazione di Armando Rigobello, Editori Riuniti University Press, Roma 2012, pp. 393-431, ISBN 978-88-6473-072-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lauth, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2007
Place of death Munich