Sigmund Bonk

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Sigmund Bonk (born July 22, 1959 in Traunstein ) is a German philosopher , professor , deacon , author and director of the Academic Forum Albertus Magnus in the diocese of Regensburg .

Life

Sigmund Alexander Bonk grew up in Waging am See in the Traunstein district (Upper Bavaria), where he graduated from high school in May 1978. After completing his military service , he began studying philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1980 , which he deepened by enrolling at the Munich School of Philosophy . His master's thesis, The Understanding of Nature in Early German Idealism , received the Alfred Delp Sponsorship Prize, whereupon Bonk began studying for a doctorate with Friedo Ricken in 1985 and supplemented it in 1988 with a research assistant to Ferdinand Ulrich . Interrupted by a year abroad at Magdalen College in Oxford with Peter Frederick Strawson , he completed his doctoral studies in 1990, which was supported by the Cusanuswerk.

In 1996 Bonk completed his habilitation on the subject of the reification of nature and was appointed private lecturer at the chair of Rolf Schönberger . Three years later he received the ordination to the permanent deacons of the Catholic Church .

In 2002, Sigmund Bonk became director of Spindlhof Palace - the educational center of the Regensburg diocese. A short time later he was also appointed adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Regensburg . He has headed the Academic Forum Albertus Magnus since 2014. Today he lives in Regensburg with his wife and two children . Lecturing activities and invitations took Bonk through Germany and via Germany to Austria , the Czech Republic , Italy , Malta and several times to the USA .

subjects

Bonk locates the starting point of his thinking and research into the history of philosophy in the tradition of Christian humanism . One of the recurring themes in his writings and lectures is the thesis of the great importance of ancient philosophy - especially Plato and Aristotle - for contemporary philosophical discourse. But also the theses about the roots of the industrial revolution in the history of the mind, about the refutability of both Berkeley's immaterialism and Human's criticism of religion can be counted among his focal points. Bonk's approach of the rationality of the properly understood belief in God also received special attention from Pope Benedict XVI. Bonk also deals with Renaissance painting in Italy , Mariology and Bavarian national history.

Bonk is a member of the Rotary Club Marc Aurel (Regensburg), the information group of the economy - idw (Regensburg), the Oxford Society , chairman of the board of the Georg Britting Foundation, former chairman of the Christian Lodge - Albertus Magnus and editor-in-chief of the traditional Marian magazine Bote von Fatima . Bonk received the Ghetto Warszawskie Medal of Honor for his commitment to communication with Polish survivors of the Holocaust . The commemorative publication "Christian Humanism", edited by Veit Neumann and Susanne Biber (Regensburg 2019), will be published on his 60th birthday.

Works (selection)

  • Little theodicy. Roderer, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-89073-885-0
  • "We see God." George Berkeley's Philosophical Theology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-631-31409-4
  • Farewell to the anima mundi. British philosophy leading up to the industrial revolution. Alber, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-495-47914-7
  • Reason, responsibility and immortality. Building blocks for a Christian humanism for our time. Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941216-06-8

Co-editing

  • Monadic thinking in the past and present. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2426-5
  • Kingdom of Bavaria. Facets of Bavarian History 1806 - 1919. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7917-1989-0
  • The Romans in Bavaria - facets of a momentous epoch. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2086-4
  • Regensburg Sunday Bible (together with Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer and others), Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7954-3176-1
  • 100 years message from Fatima, shared responsibility for the salvation of others (together with Josef Kreiml), Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-29183
  • Faith and Church in Times of Change (together with V. Neumann and I. Spindlhöck): Festschrift for Josef Kreiml, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7954-3176-1
  • Between rationality and religion. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-3047-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung : Professor Bonk leaves the Spindlhof on July 30, 2014
  2. ↑ Reason, responsibility and immortality. Building blocks for a Christian humanism for our time. Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin: 2009
  3. ^ "Farewell to the anima mundi." British philosophy in the run-up to the industrial revolution Munich: Alber 1999
  4. ↑ "We see God." George Berkeley's Philosophical Theology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1997
  5. ↑ Reason, responsibility and immortality. Building blocks for a Christian humanism for our time. Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 2009
  6. ↑ Imprint. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  7. ^ Website of the Institutum Marianum Regensburg
personal data
SURNAME Bonk, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, deacon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Waging by the lake