Simon Moser (philosopher)

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Simon Moser (born March 15, 1901 in Jenbach / Tyrol ; † July 22, 1988 in Mils near Hall / Tyrol) was an Austrian philosopher. From 1952 until his retirement in 1968 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the Technical University (later University) Karlsruhe .

Life

Moser, the son of a post office director, completed his Matura in Hall in 1918 and then studied law in Innsbruck from 1919 to 1922, completing the first state examination. At the same time he passed an Abitur examination from the Innsbruck Commercial Academy at the Franciscan School in Hall / Tyrol and studied philosophy in Innsbruck at the same time. In 1922 he submitted his first doctorate on the subject of "The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism". After further studies in philosophy , economics , classical philology and mathematics in Berlin, Marburg and Freiburg, he obtained his second doctorate in philosophy in Freiburg in 1932 (with Martin Heidegger ) on the subject of "Basic concepts of natural philosophy with Wilhelm von Ockham". In 1935 he completed his habilitation in the subject of the history of philosophy in Innsbruck with Alfred Kastil with the subject “On the doctrine of the definitions in Aristotle”. There he was a private lecturer until the winter semester 1937/38. Due to his closeness to Austrofascism and as the main head of the Fatherland Front , he and others were dismissed as politically unreliable in the summer semester of 1938. From the beginning of 1940 Moser was a candidate for membership in the NSDAP and was appointed lecturer of the new order in March after he behaved "emphatically correctly" towards the party. The Gauleitung in Tyrol, however, regarded him as an unchanged politically unreliable representative of Catholicism . The appointment was withdrawn in November 1940. Moser did military service from 1940 to 1945 and was also a lecturer in Vienna during this time . In 1945 he founded the International University Weeks in Alpbach / Tyrol (today European Forum Alpbach ) together with Otto Molden , of which he was scientific director until 1978. From 1945 to 1952 he was again a private lecturer in Innsbruck, from 1946 as titular professor. In 1952 he received a substitute for the associate professor for philosophy at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he was appointed associate professor in 1955 and full professor in 1962. His retirement took place in 1968. From 1960 to 1977 he was head of the Karlsruhe Studium Generale .

The major part of the estate is administered by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Teaching

Moser has made a particular contribution to the promotion and supervision of interdisciplinary discussions and seminars, mostly at the annual events in Alpbach, but also during the semester at the Studium Generale in Karlsruhe. During his time there was hardly a significant scholar from the humanities and natural sciences who would not have gladly accepted Moser's invitation to Alpbach or Karlsruhe. His conceptual-philosophical-critical discussion attitude, which he combined with liberal openness, was generally valued. In this way he was able to confront and convey different disciplines, doctrines and viewpoints with one another again and again. Originally shaped by ancient and medieval philosophy, he later developed into a knowledgeable and reflective universal scholar . The philosophy of work, technology and the natural sciences became a focus of his thinking.

Works (in selection)

  • Austrian mountains and mountain people , 1937
  • Text by Josef Wenter : The country in the mountains: From fortification farmer to mountain hunter. An image . Deutscher Alpenverlag, Innsbruck 1942. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .
  • Metaphysics then and now , Berlin 1958.
  • Philosophy and the present , Meisenheim / Glan 1960.
  • (Ed. With K. Steinbuch): Philosophy and Cybernetics , Munich 1970.
  • (Ed. With Hans Lenk ): Techne - Technik - Technologie , Pullach near Munich 1973.
  • Between antiquity and the present , Frankfurt / M. etc. 1986 (ed. by H. Lenk and M. Maring; with a list of scientific writings).

literature

  • Ilse Korotin: German philosophers from the point of view of the Reichsführer SS security service: Dossier Simon Moser . Yearbook for Sociology History 1993, pp. 337–344.
  • Ernst Oldemeyer (Hrsg.): The philosophy and the sciences. Simon Moser on his 65th birthday . Meisenheim am Glan 1967. 412 pp.
  • Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. 2 volumes, Akademie Verlag 2002, ISBN 3050036478 , p. 771 et passim.
  • o. V .: The scientific writings of Simon Moser . In: Journal for Philosophical Research Vol. 20, H. 2 (Apr. – Jun., 1966), pp. 327-330
  • Andrea Marlen Esser :  Moser, Simon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 204 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie, Berlin 2002, p. 771
  2. ↑ Ilse Korotin: German philosophers from the point of view of the security service of the Reichsführer SS - focus on Austria , in: Marion Heinz, Goran Gretić (ed.): Philosophy and Zeitgeist in National Socialism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, pp. 45-66, here 52
  3. ↑ KIT Archive ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 27014 Simon Moser's estate @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.kit.edu
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-m.html
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Jenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1988
Place of death Mils at Hall