Wolfgang Wieland (philosopher)

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Wolfgang Wieland
Wolfgang Wieland. Signature 1993

Wolfgang Wieland (born June 29, 1933 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † March 8, 2015 in Göttingen ) was a German philosopher and doctor . He is considered one of the most important philosophers of his generation.

Life

Wieland received his doctorate in 1955 in Heidelberg under Hans-Georg Gadamer with a thesis on Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling . The habilitation followed in 1960. From 1960 he was associate professor at the University of Hamburg . Wieland then followed appointments as professor of philosophy in Marburg (1964–1968), Göttingen (1968–1979) and Freiburg im Breisgau (1979–1983). From 1983 until his retirement in 1998 he was Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg .

Positions

Coming from the school of Gadamer - influenced even more by the skeptical attitude of Karl Löwith - Wieland takes the subject of investigation in his habilitation thesis Aristotelian Physics . His investigation, which combines phenomenological and language-analytical perspectives, has become a classic of Aristotle research, published in several editions . After numerous seminal essays on Aristotelian syllogistics, a groundbreaking study on Plato's philosophy followed in 1982 . It is Wieland's merit to show the philosophical dimension of the form of dialogue as an expression of the importance that Plato attaches to forms of non-propositional knowledge such as human skills and dispositions.

The performance of judgment is another research focus of Wieland. As a human medicine practitioner, he has questioned these in numerous publications such as Praxis and Judgment or Diagnosis: Thoughts on medical theory in the field of medical practice. In another great monograph, he turns to Kant's theory of judgment with judgment and feeling .

Wieland's work has had a broad international impact to this day. Wieland was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences ; In 2005 the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Schelling's doctrine of time - foundations and requirements of the philosophy of the ages. Winter, Heidelberg 1956.
  • Aristotelian physics - investigations into the foundations of natural science and the linguistic conditions of the research into principles in Aristotle. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962; 3rd edition 1992.
  • Diagnosis - Medical Theory Considerations. De Gruyter, Berlin 1975; 2nd edition 2004.
  • Plato and the forms of knowledge. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982; 2nd, expanded edition 1999.
  • Structural Change in Medicine and Medical Ethics - Philosophical Considerations on Basic Questions of a Practical Science. Winter, Heidelberg 1986.
  • Aporias of practical reason. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Responsibility - Principle of Ethics? Winter, Heidelberg 1999.
  • Judgment and Feeling - Kant's Theory of Judgment. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001.
  • Bioethics as a challenge. Bonn University Press, Bonn 2003.

Editing

  • with Elisabeth Ströker : Manual Philosophy. 10 volumes. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 1981–1996.

Articles (selection)

  • The eternity of the world. The dispute between Ioannes Philoponus and Simplicius. In: The presence of the Greeks in modern thought. Festschrift for Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960. pp. 291–316.
  • Heinrich Heine and philosophy. In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history. 37, 1963, pp. 232-248.
  • Hegel's dialectic of sensual certainty. In: Orbis Scriptus. Dimitrij Tschizewskij on his 70th birthday. Munich 1966, pp. 933-941.
  • The beginnings of Schelling's philosophy and the question of nature. In: Nature and History. Karl Löwith on his 70th birthday. Stuttgart 1967, pp. 406-440.
  • Continuum and angel time with Thomas Aquinas. In: E. Scheibe and G. Süssmann (eds.): Unity and diversity. Festschrift for Carl Friedrich v. Weizsäcker on his 60th birthday. Göttingen 1972, pp. 77-90.
  • Temporal causal structures in Aristotelian logic. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. 54, 1972, pp. 229-237.
  • Notes on the beginning of Hegel's logic. In: H. Fahrenbach (Ed.): Reality and reflection. Walter Schulz on his 60th birthday. Pfullingen 1973, pp. 395-414.
  • Practice and judgment. In: Journal for Philosophical Research. 28, 1974, pp. 17-42.
  • Aristotle and the naval battle. On the structure of prognostic statements. In: Reports on the history of science. 2, 1979, pp. 25-33.
  • State and self-confidence. A note on Plato's Politeia. In: Synthesis philosophica. 10, 1990, pp. 393-406.
  • The individual and his identification in the world of contingency. In: Th. Hoffmann, St. Majetschak (Ed.): Thinking of Individuality. Festschrift for Josef Simon for his 65th birthday. Berlin 1995, pp. 3-25.
  • About the reason why philosophy is interested in its history. In: RW Puster (Ed.): Veritas filia temporis? Festschrift for Rainer Specht on his 65th birthday. Berlin 1995, pp. 9-30.
  • The Socratic legacy: laughs. In: Th. Kobusch, B. Mojsisch (Ed.): Platon. His dialogues in terms of new research. Darmstadt 1996, pp. 5-24.
  • Dialectics and Relations. In: R. Breuninger (Hrsg.): Philosophy of subjectivity and the subject of philosophy. Festschrift for Klaus Giel on his 70th birthday. Würzburg 1997, pp. 369-383.
  • Kant's legal philosophy of judgment. In: Journal for Philosophical Research. 52, 1998, pp. 1-22.
  • Poiesis. The Aristotelian concept of a philosophy of manufacturing. In: Th. Buchheim, H. Flashar, R. King (eds.): Can you still do something with Aristotle today? Hamburg 2003, pp. 223-247.
  • What does that mean and to what end do you avoid the use of judgment? Strategies to circumvent them. In: F. Rodi (Ed.): Judgment and Heuristics in the Sciences. Contributions to the creation of the new. Weilerswist 2003, pp. 9-33.
  • Pro potentiality argument: moral ability as the basis of dignity and protection of life. In: G. Damschen, D. Schönecker (Ed.): The moral status of human embryos. Berlin / New York 2003, pp. 149–168.
  • Challenges in bioethics. In: W. Hogrebe (ed.): Borders and border crossing. XIX. German Congress for Philosophy. Berlin 2004, pp. 829-842.
  • Science in the crosshairs of the Enlightenment. On the scope of hypothetical thinking. In: R. Enskat, A. Kleinert (Ed.): Enlightenment and science. Acta Historica Leopoldina. No. 57. Halle (Saale) 2011, pp. 99–130.

literature

  • Rainer Enskat (Ed.): Amicus Plato magis amica veritas. Festschrift for Wolfgang Wieland on his 65th birthday. De Gruyter, Berlin 1998.
  • Gregor Damschen , Rainer Enskat, Alejandro G. Vigo (eds.): Plato and Aristoteles - sub ratione veritatis. Festschrift for Wolfgang Wieland on his 70th birthday. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grave in Heidelberg-Neuenheim; Obituary notice In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 12, 2015.
  2. ^ Gregor Damschen et al .: Plato and Aristotle - sub ratione veritatis. S. VIII.
  3. ^ Christian Geyer: Diagnostiker des Menschen. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 10, 2015, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and physician
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2015
Place of death Goettingen