Stefan Bauberger

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Stefan Bauberger SJ (born May 21, 1960 in Munich ) is a physicist , Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus , Zen master and professor of philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979, Bauberger did a two-year social internship in Rastatt (help for families in emergency settlements). Even as a teenager he was interested in Zen meditations and after several advanced courses he had already participated in a sesshin with Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle before he became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1981 and completed his novitiate in Nuremberg for two years . From 1983 to 1985 he studied philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich and completed his studies with an intermediate examination ( baccalaureate ). From 1985 to 1987 he did another social internship with the Jesuit Refugee Service , looking after Vietnamese boat people in Malaysia. At the same time he began studying theology in 1986 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt, which he graduated with a diploma in 1989. Then Bauberger began studying physics in Würzburg. Meanwhile, he was ordained a priest in 1990. After graduating, he worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics II at the University of Würzburg until his doctorate on theoretical elementary particle physics in the field of methods for the analytical and numerical calculation of scalar two - loop self-energy integrals and application to muon decay .

In the years 1997 to 1999, Bauberger had several stays in India for studies of Buddhism, where he was also authorized as a Zen master by the Indian Zen master Ama Samy SJ. From 1999 he was initially a lecturer and from 2001 a lecturer at the University of Philosophy, where he completed his habilitation in 2005 . Since then he has worked as a private lecturer for borderline questions in natural science and philosophy of science and as a lecturer for questions about Buddhism at the University of Philosophy and at the same time head of training for the Jesuits in the German-speaking area. In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Philosophy.

In 2011, in addition to his activity as a course leader, Bauberger took over the spiritual direction of the Zen center Almtal-Zendo , which was newly established in a 400-year-old mill in Pettenbach , Austria , in October 2015 the center moved to Spiegelau in the Bavarian Forest and was therefore located in Nordwald- Renamed Zendo. He also gives courses in Zen meditation at various locations and, as a Zen master, leads the Herzgrund Sangha in Munich.

philosophy

Bauberger advocates critical realism in the field of philosophy of science . Science is fallible , but aims at objective knowledge . The knowledge in the advancement of the sciences is methodologically limited to a certain perspective, which z. B. exclude the subjective. In principle it is possible to formulate a complete description of the world on a microcosmic level, albeit practically impossible. But statements about what is morally good or what is generally meaningful would be on a different level: "Physical formulas and terms do not contribute to the world interpretation, to the worldview if they are not interpreted." The perspective of the subjective is only included when facts be assigned a value or z. B. be connected with a qualitative phenomenological experience content ( qualia ). Both spiritual and material are part of the one reality. Subjective insights must be compatible with scientific knowledge, but exceed (transcend) them.

Applied to religion, this also means that the talk of an active creator god does not refer to something that could be thought of on the same level next to or by means of the same categories as describable above the physical laws, even if physical-causal description is inaccessible. Rather, a religious perspective is an expression of a worldview that includes evaluations such as "good", "beautiful" or "meaningful" - a worldview that is based on a fundamental human need for meaning that science cannot explain or fulfill.

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  1. See Stefan Bauberger: Reach of Physics ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), lecture in the Border Questions forum (accessed on October 4, 2013)
  2. Theses by Stefan Bauberger in: From Higgs Particles to the World Formula ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), conference on December 18, 2012 in the Hohenheim conference center (accessed on October 4, 2013)