Robert Theis
Robert Theis (born January 1, 1947 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg philosopher.
Life
Theis studied philosophy from 1967 to 1970 at the Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana in Rome (lic.phil.). From 1970 to 1974 he studied Catholic theology at the Institut catholique de Paris (maîtrise en théologie with a thesis on Karl Barth's theology of the Trinity); 1972-1975 he studied philosophy at the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne) , where he in June 1975 with a thesis on the early Hegel Dr. phil. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maurice de Gandillac ). From 1974 to 1995 Theis worked as a philosophy teacher at several Luxembourg high schools, including at the Lycée Hubert-Clément in Esch an der Alzette ; since 1982 he has also been a lecturer at the Institute for Catholic Theology at Saarland University . In 1992 he was habilitated (venia legendi for philosophy) at Saarland University with a paper on the development of Kant's theological thinking and was appointed private lecturer. From 1995 he taught philosophy at the Center universitaire de Luxembourg; since 1996 as a professor, then from 2003 at the newly founded Université du Luxembourg . In 1998 he received the title of adjunct professor at Saarland University. Guest lecturer u. a. at Charles University in Prague. Theis retired in October 2010.
The focus of his research is historically located on the one hand with Kant and the philosophy of the German Enlightenment (here in particular Wolff), on the other hand with Anselm von Canterbury . From a systematic point of view, his research is focused on questions of ontology and metaphysics as well as the philosophy of religion. Theis is Vice President of the Société d'Etudes Kantiennes de Langue Française; Editor of the series "Europaea Memoria" and "Wolff Werke" at Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim). He is a member of several academies: International Academy of Philosophy (Yerevan); Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (Salzburg).
Works (selection)
- Le discours dédoublé. Philosophy et théologie dans la pensée du jeune Hegel , Paris 1978;
- Approches de la Critique de la raison pure , Hildesheim 1991;
- God. Investigations on the development of the theological discourse in Kant's writings on theoretical philosophy up to the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason , Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt 1994;
- Hans Jonas. Habiter le monde , Paris 2008;
- La raison et son Dieu. Etude sur la théologie kantienne , Paris 2012;
- De Wolff à Kant / Von Wolff zu Kant , Hildesheim 2013
- Hans Jonas , Wiesbaden 2018
- (Ed.) De Christian Wolff à Louis Lavelle. Métaphysique et histoire de la philosophie (Festschrift f. Jean Ecole), Hildesheim 1995
- (Ed.) The German Enlightenment in the Mirror of the Newer French Enlightenment Research (= Enlightenment, Volume 10) , Hamburg 1998
- (Ed.) E. Kant, L'unique argument possible pour une demonstration de l'existence de Dieu , Paris 2001
- (Ed.) Anselm v. Canterbury , Proslogion / Salutation, Stuttgart, Reclam 2003
- (Ed.) Les sources de la philosophie kantienne aux 17e et 18e siècles (files of the 6th Congress of the French Kant Society), Paris 2005
- (Ed.) Religion (= Enlightenment, year 21) , 2009
- (Ed.) Kant: Théologie et religion , (files of the 10th Congress of the French Kant Society), Paris 2013
- (Ed. Together with A. Aichele), Christian Wolff Handbuch, Wiesbaden 2018
- The Proslogion of Anselm of Canterbury and the question of the recognizability of God , in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch (PhJ), Vol. 101, 1994, pp. 260-276.
- Reason within the limits of belief. Aspects of the Anselmischen methodology in a work genetic perspective , in: Theologie und Philosophie (ThPh), Vol. 72, 1997, pp. 161-187.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Theis, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Luxembourg philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luxembourg |