Walter Schulz (philosopher)

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Walter Schulz (born November 18, 1912 in Gnadenfeld / Upper Silesia , † June 12, 2000 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Walter Schulz in a student pencil drawing, 1969

Schulz studied from 1933 to 1938 Classical Philology , Philosophy and Protestant Theology at the Universities of Marburg , where he heard Karl Löwith , Gerhard Krüger , Hans-Georg Gadamer in philosophy and was impressed by Rudolf Bultmann in theology , and briefly in Breslau . He followed Hans-Georg Gadamer to Leipzig in 1939 , where he passed his state examination in philology and philosophy. After his second, serious wound as a soldier in World War II , he received his doctorate in 1944 under Hans-Georg Gadamer in Leipzig on the evidence of immortality in the Platonic Phaedo . Schulz completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1951 with a thesis on Schelling's late philosophy.

In 1955 he was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen . In 1958 he turned down a call to the chair of Martin Heidegger in Freiburg im Breisgau . Until his retirement in 1978 he was one of the Tübingen scholars with the largest audience.

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In his habilitation thesis published in 1955, The Perfection of German Idealism in the Spätphilosophie Schelling , Schulz developed the thesis that, in contrast to the conventional presentation, the theoretical climax of the German idealistic philosophy is not to be seen in Hegel's system, but in Schelling's late philosophy. Here Schulz develops the basic lines of his later work in the history of philosophy integrating idealism and the philosophy of the later 19th century into the overall context of European metaphysics - a context that will increasingly show itself as a turning away from metaphysical certainties.

In the following years he worked on this central idea with contributions on the position of philosophizing, for example by Nikolaus Cusanus , Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Søren Kierkegaard : namely that philosophy has lost its foundation from the context of classical European metaphysics and yet has a focus on the brokenness of the human relationship to the world is still needed as a critical instance of thought. In his main works Philosophy in the Changed World - which met with a wide echo - and I and the World , he places this problem at the center of the attempt to determine the location and limits of the subjectivity ascertaining in thinking.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klett-Kotta Verlag : press reviews on philosophy in the changed world (FAZ, ZEIT etc.)

Fonts

  • Soul and being. Contributions to the philosophical interpretation of the proofs of immortality in the Platonic Phaedo. Dissertation. Leipzig 1944.
  • The completion of German idealism in Schelling's late philosophy. Habilitation thesis. Heidelberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955.
  • The god of modern metaphysics. Neske, Pfullingen 1957.
  • Wittgenstein. The negation of philosophy. Neske, Pfullingen 1967
  • Philosophy in the changed world . Neske, Pfullingen 1972.
  • Me and the world. Philosophy of subjectivity. Neske, Pfullingen 1979.
  • Reason and freedom. Seven essays. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Metaphysics of Levitation. Studies on the history of aesthetics. Neske, Pfullingen 1985.
  • Basic problems of ethics. Neske, Pfullingen 1989.
  • Subjectivity in the Post-Metaphysical Age. Essays. Neske, Pfullingen 1992.
  • The broken relationship to the world. Essays on the history of philosophy and the analysis of the present. Neske, Stuttgart 1994.
  • Examining thinking. Essays to Revitalize Philosophy. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Gnadenfeld , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2000
Place of death Tübingen