Reto Luzius Fetz

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Reto Luzius Fetz (born June 9, 1942 in Domat / Ems , Canton of Graubünden ) is a Swiss philosopher . From 1988 to 2008 he taught philosophy at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

Life

Fetz attended elementary school in Domat / Ems. He then completed high school at the Bündner Kantonsschule in Chur . He then studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland , where he became an assistant. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Thomas Aquinas and his habilitation thesis on Alfred North Whitehead . After completing his habilitation, years of research followed with Jean Piaget in Geneva. He then became a lecturer at the St. Gallen University of Education and a visiting lecturer at the University of Bern . From 1988 to 2008 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . In 2004 his first literary work, Im Schatten des Greif, was published by Reclam Leipzig . The detective novel resolves a murder case in a university environment on different levels of consciousness. The setting of the novel is primarily the landscape in the canton of Friborg . He is a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Alcimonia Eichstätt and KDStV Aureo-Danubia Ingolstadt.

Philosophy overview

On the way to a new way of thinking

Reto Fetz sees himself as continuing the tradition of the philosophers Alfred North Whitehead , Ernst Cassirer and Jean Piaget , who for Fetz represent outstanding philosophical and scientific new approaches of the 20th century and for Fetz as "transformative thinkers" are the basis of a new meta and mega paradigm . According to Fetz, the central statements are as follows:

" Reality is made up of a multitude of independent, but internally connected process beings (Pluarlism). Such a process being results from a genesis that leads from an initial structure to a final structure. Structure and genesis are mutually dependent (genetic structuralism) The moment in self-realization is self-regulation (autoregulation), which is expressed in equilibrium processes (equilibration) .

The coevolution of individual beings and reality is aimed at ever higher levels, which lead from physical structures through biological organization to consciousness. An organismic basic feature is already inherent in the physical structures.

Fetz sees his approach as a continuation of the subject philosophy of the modern age, but with the gradual difference of overcoming the dualisms of matter and spirit, life and spirit, as well as nature and culture: " It leaves the death of the subject behind, as does the dehumanizing tendencies of systems thinking and deconstructivism ".

Biophilosophy - The Reality of Active Beings

Based on these positions, Reto Fetz has designed a foundation for an organismic and structural genetic conception of reality, which is a new, organismic conception of reality based on Whitehead, Cassierer and Piaget (Reality of Active Beings, 2019) and represents a new biophilosophy. The central basic term is the term "active beings", which was conceived in analogy to Withehead's term "actual entity", but are no longer monads. According to Fetz, this can be understood as a first approximation of the "concept of the living being".

Research priorities

  • Biophilosophy
  • Process philosophy
  • Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics
  • History of Classical Metaphysics
  • Structural genetic development theories

Works

  • The reality of active beings . Foundation of an organismic and structural genetic conception of reality. Biophilosophie Volume 1. Freiburg / Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-495-49107-2 .
  • Ontology of inwardness. Reditio completa and Processio interior with Thomas von Aquin (= Studia Friburgensia , vol. 52). University Press, Friborg Switzerland 1975.
  • Whitehead: Process thinking and substance metaphysics (= Symposium , Vol. 65). Alber, Freiburg and Munich 1981, ISBN 3-495-47465-X .
  • Structure and genesis. Jean Piaget's Transformation of Philosophy . Haupt, Bern and Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-258-03851-1 .
  • Studies on the philosophy of Edith Stein : International Edith Stein Symposium Eichstätt 1991 (= Phenomenological Research , Vol. 26/27). Editor, together with M. Rath and P. Schulz. Alber, Freiburg and Munich 1993, ISBN 3-495-47765-9 .
  • History and prehistory of modern subjectivity (= European Cultures. Studies in Literature and the Arts , Vol. 11). 2 vols., Editor, together with R. Hagenbüchle and P. Schulz. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1998.
  • Worldview Development and Understanding of Creation - A structural genetic investigation in children and adolescents . Together with KH Reich and P. Valentin. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-017092-9 .
  • Shri Ramana Maharshi: From I to Self , LIT Verlag, Berlin-Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9662-5 .
  • Lively form. On the metaphysics of the symbolic in Ernst Cassirer's "Postponed Manuscripts and Texts" . Editor, together with S. Ullrich. Meiner, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7873-1872-8 .
  • Whitehead - Cassirer - Piaget. On the way to a new way of thinking . Editor, together with B. Seidenfuß and S. Ullrich. Alber, Freiburg and Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-495-48378-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reto Fetz: Whitehead - Cassirer - Piaget. On the way to a new way of thinking. Editor, together with B. Seidenfuß and S. Ullrich, Freiburg and Munich: Alber, 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48378-7 foreword and p. 15 ff.
  2. ^ Reto Fetz: Whitehead - Cassirer - Piaget. On the way to a new way of thinking. Editor, together with B. Seidenfuß and S. Ullrich, Freiburg and Munich: Alber, 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48378-7 foreword and p. 16
  3. ^ Reto Fetz: Whitehead - Cassirer - Piaget. On the way to a new way of thinking. Editor, together with B. Seidenfuß and S. Ullrich, Freiburg and Munich: Alber, 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48378-7 foreword and p. 16
  4. ^ Reto Fetz: Whitehead - Cassirer - Piaget. On the way to a new way of thinking. Editor, together with B. Seidenfuß and S. Ullrich, Freiburg and Munich: Alber, 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48378-7 foreword and p. 16
  5. ↑ The reality of active beings. Foundation of an organismic and structural genetic conception of reality. Biophilosophie Volume 1. Freiburg / Munich 2019. P. 16 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Fetz, Reto Luzius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Domat / Ems , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland