Rudolf Kamp

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Rudolf Kamp (born August 4, 1946 in Düsseldorf ) is a German philosopher and aphorist . The focus of his writing lies in the areas of ethics , philosophy of science , philosophy of language and social criticism .

Career

Rudolf Kamp grew up with two brothers in a retail merchant family in Düsseldorf. After graduating from high school in 1966 at the local humanistic-ancient language Görres-Gymnasium, he did two years of voluntary military service, which he completed as a reserve officer.

He then started studying philosophy, German, linguistics and education at the University of Bonn in 1968 and continued in Düsseldorf from 1970. Here he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In his dissertation with the title “Axiomatic Language Theory ” he examined, using language as an example, how the humanities constitute their respective subject area and from this derive the appropriate methodology.

From 1976 until his retirement in 2009 he worked professionally in adult education. In connection with this, he led seminars and gave lectures on andragogical and philosophical topics. Since his retirement he has increasingly turned to the writing and theory of aphorisms and, most recently, the philosophy of the time.

He is married, has two grown daughters and lives with his wife in Mosbach .

On the ethics of the time

Based on Augustine's old question “But what is time?” And Thomas Mann's answer “A mystery, essential and omnipotent”, Kamp tries to get to the bottom of the mystery of time and its characteristics in his main work On the Ethics of Time . On an extended walk through the history of culture and philosophy, illustrated by aphorisms, images and poems, he deals with the various objective and subjective faces of the time.

This exploration of different facets of time leads, however, to the insight that time can only be adequately understood as a determination of the essence of human existence . With this, Kamp takes up on the one hand Kant, who understands time as a human form of perception a priori; on the other hand, Kamp goes beyond Kant in that he understands time beyond the mere faculty of knowledge as a human form of existence a priori.

According to Kamp, this existential temporality can be broken down into a spectrum of traits:

  • the relaxation of the ego in the three temporal modes of experience or dimensions of present, past and future (“modality” of time or “ecstasies” of time);
  • the opposing idea of ​​the passage of time through a linear or a cyclical understanding of time;
  • the definition of temporality based on two polar opposing existential boundary conditions: finiteness and “nativeness” / “birthliness”;
  • the two-faced encounter with time as both externally tangible objective time and internally experienced subjective time.

From these traits, Kamp tries to derive an ethic of successful life based on the ethical approach of Aristotle. Ethically appropriate lifelong attitudes are according to Kamp z. For example: “Respect for the present instead of being obedient to the future”, “Responsibility instead of ignoring the future”, “Respect for the past and culture of remembrance”. Such temporal attitudes are to be implemented through concrete patterns of action - the "respect for the present" for example through "presentness", "instantaneousness", proper times , leisure , deceleration and "kotemporality". Ultimately, a basic attitude of “respect for time” is crucial for Kamp: to accept that we actually cannot “have” the time, but that we “are” time.

Publications (selection)

philosophy

  • (with Wolfram Hogrebe and Gert König) Periodica Philosophica. An international biography of philosophical journals from the beginning to the present. Philosophia Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972
  • Axiomatic theory of language. Scientific theoretical studies on the constitutional problem of the individual sciences using the example of Karl Bühler's theory of linguistics . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-03995-5
  • Axiomatic guidelines instead of dogmatic bulletins. Karl Bühler's contribution to the philosophy of science of the individual sciences , in: Bühler Studies, Volume 1 , ed. v. Achim Eschbach, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1984, pp. 50-97
  • On the ethics of the time. From who we have to who we are. With pictures, poems and aphorisms . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6019-9

Aphorism

Aphorisms
  • Competition aphorisms, in: Anthology of the aphorism competition 2012: From the status of values , ed. v. Petra Kamburg, Friedemann Spicker and Jürgen Wilbert, Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2012, pp. 12-13, ISBN 978-3-8196-0859-9
  • Sprinkle of sayings. Aphorisms. With cartoons by Pol Leurs. Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2013, ISBN 978-3-8196-0917-6
  • Snapbacks. Aphorisms & language games. With cartoons by Pol Leurs. Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2014, ISBN 978-3-8196-0956-5
Technical articles
  • Value judgments in aphorisms , in: Valuation - Appreciation. The aphorism in the change of values , ed. v. Petra Kamburg, Friedemann Spicker and Jürgen Wilbert, Brockmeyer Verlag. Bochum 2013, pp. 32-42, ISBN 978-3-8196-0905-3
  • Aphoristic Critique - Chances and Limits , in: Positions des Aphorismus , ed. v. Friedemann Spicker and Jürgen Wilbert, Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2017, pp. 52–65, ISBN 978-3-8196-1043-1

Awards

  • 2012 International competition of the Friends of the German Aphorism Archive (DAphA), 2nd place

Web links

Literature by and about Rudolf Kamp in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

  1. ↑ Aurelius Augustinus: Confessions, Book 11. , quoted n. Roland W. Henke, Zeit und Zeitlichkeit, Bönen 2001, p. 38
  2. ↑ Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg , Stuttgart 2015, p. 474
  3. ↑ Cf. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Transzendentale Ästhetik, §§ 4 ff. In: Immanuel Kant, Works in Twelve Volumes, Volume III , Wiesbaden 1956, p. 78 ff.
  4. ↑ See Aurelius Augustinus: Confessions, 11th book , in: Hans-Georg Gadamer: Philosophisches Lesebuch, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 284 ff.
  5. ↑ See Martin Heidegger: Sein und Zeit , Tübingen 1967, p. 328 f.
  6. ↑ Cf. Karlheinz A. Geissler: Zeit leben , 3rd ed. Weinheim and Berlin 1989, passim
  7. ↑ See Martin Heidegger: Being and Time , Tübingen 1967, passim
  8. ↑ See Hannah Arendt: Vita activa, Munich 1960, passim
  9. ↑ Cf. Karlheinz A. Geißler: Time - stay yet , 6th edition Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, passim; Harald Weinrich: Knappe Zeit , 3rd, revised edition. Munich 2005, passim
  10. ↑ Cf. Aristoteles: Nikomachische Ethik, Buch II Stuttgart 1969, p. 34 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kamp, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf