Vincent Berning

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Vincent Berning (born July 25, 1933 in Berlin ) is a Catholic German philosopher and university professor .

Life

Born on July 25, 1933 in Berlin as the son of August Heinrich Berning (Christian cultural and social politician, poet , editor-in-chief, † 1982), who shared him with friends of the Werl-Soester district around Theodor Abele († 1965), Hermann Platz († 1945), Alois Dempf († 1982), Heinrich Krone († 1982), Gustav Gundlach SJ († 1963) and others. a. made known. Abele made him aware of the theologian and philosopher Herman Schell († 1906) and the contemporary importance of Thomas Aquinas and gave him important impulses for his spiritual development. After attending humanistic grammar schools in Paderborn, Kassel, Werl, Aachen, graduated from high school in 1955. Studied philosophy , theology and education at the universities in Bonn and Munich. In 1963 he completed his doctorate at the University of Munich under Alois Dempf and in 1971 he completed his habilitation at the Rhineland University of Education. From 1971 Berning was scientific advisor and professor for philosophy at the Pedagogical University of the Rhineland Dept. Aachen, from 1980 professor at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen .

Create

In his intellectual and systematic research, Vincent Berning advocates an epistemological, moderately critical realism that is based on the foundations that were laid in the Hebrew thinking of the Old and New Testaments , especially by Aristotle in antiquity , and that Thomas Aquinas laid in the doctrine of Christianity of God, the world and man. Critical appreciation of the positions of the church fathers as well as the thinkers of patristic , scholastic and neo-scholasticism up to the present day.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Herman Schell's thinking. The philosophical systematics of his theology unfolded genetically (= contributions to the recent history of Catholic theology , volume 8), Ludgerus Verlag Hubert Wingen, Essen 1964, DNB 450410560 (dissertation Munich [1964], 245 pages).
  • The risk of loyalty ; Gabriel Marcel's Path to a Concrete Philosophy of Creativity, Freiburg im Breisgau 1973, ISBN 3-495-47273-8 .
  • God, spirit and world. Herman Schell as a philosopher and theologian, Paderborn 1978.
  • System. Philosophizing between idealism and neo-scholasticism at the turn of the century. Studies on the Christian philosophy of Herman Schell, Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-506-70192-4 .
  • Education today. Introduction to the Basics of Educational Philosophy , 1994, ISBN 3-923949-03-0 .
  • Martin Honecker (1884-1941). On the way from logic to metaphysics. The basics of his critical-realistic thinking, Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2003, ISBN 3-928273-87-6 .
  • The Idea of ​​the Person in Philosophy - Philosophical Foundation of a Personal Anthropology , 2007

Editing

  • Hermann Platz (1880-1945) , a commemorative publication, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-491-77836-0
  • Gabriel Marcel. Reflection and intuition . Texts on the ontological participation of thinking (selection and commentary), 1987
  • with Hans Maier: Alois Dempf, 1891-1982, philosopher, cultural theorist, prophet against National Socialism , 1992, ISBN 3-87437-333-9
  • with Remigius Bäumer and Raimund Honecker: The philosopher Martin Honecker (1888-1941). Personality and intellectual profile. Weilheim Bierbronnen 2004, ISBN 3-928273-78-7 .
  • with Heinz Robert Schlette: Studies on French Philosophy of the 20th Century (book series), Bonn 1974 ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophical Institute of RWTH Aachen University , accessed on August 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Klostermann.de accessed on August 15, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Berning, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin