Gerhard Krüger (philosopher)

Gerhard Krüger ( born January 30, 1902 in Berlin Wilmersdorf b, . † February 14, 1972 in Baden -Baden ) was a German philosopher and cultural theorist.

Life and work

Kruger attended high school in Friedenau and studied philosophy, Protestant Theology and History in Jena, Tübingen and especially Marburg. His academic teachers were Bruno belly, John Haller, Paul Natorp, Martin Heidegger, Nicolai Hartmann and Rudolf Bultmann. He received his doctorate in 1925 at Hartmann. After his habilitation in 1929 with the work of philosophy and morality in the Kantian criticism, he worked as a lecturer in Marburg.

Kruger was a pupil and friend of Rudolf Bultmann. With his teacher Martin Heidegger and Marburg Marburg colleague Hans -Georg Gadamer, he was on the list of signatories of the election call by the Nazis on 11 November 1933: Confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state. Since a close with the Confessing Church, he was reputed to be his appointment as associate professor at the University of Marburg delayed until 1938. According professorships in Göttingen and Frankfurt / Main, he was decent in 1940 as the successor of Peter Wust professor of philosophy in Münster. In 1946 he followed a call to Tübingen. In 1950, he stepped over to the Catholic Church.

1952 moved Kruger as successor Gadamer, who took over the chair of Karl Jaspers in Heidelberg, Frankfurt / Main, where he held a chair of history of philosophy, philosophy of history and metaphysics until his retirement in 1956. The end of 1952, he suffered a very severe stroke, so that he had to give up teaching. Since 1957 he has lived in Heidelberg.

Kruger is one of the philosophical teacher of Richard Schaeffler and Klaus Oehler. His book, insight and passion. The essence of the Platonic Dialogue ( 1939) was published in 1992 in its sixth edition and was designed by Enrico Peroli (Professor of Philosophy at the Università di Chieti) translated into Italian ( Ragione e passione. L' essenza del pensiero plato nico ).

Works (selection)

  • Kant's doctrine of Sinnesaffektion. Diss phil. masch. Marburg 1925
  • Philosophy and morality in the Kantian Philosophy ( 1931)
  • The origin of the philosophical self-consciousness, in: Logos 22, 1933, separately: WBG, Darmstadt 1962
  • Insight and passion. The essence of Platonic thought ( 1939). 6th edition, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-465-02570-2 ( the work provides an intensive review of Plato's dialogue Symposium is )
  • Occidental humanity. Two chapters on the relationship between humanity, Antiquity and Christianity ( 1952).
  • Fundamental questions of philosophy. History, truth, knowledge. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1958, second, revised edition 1965
  • Freedom and world government. Essays on the Philosophy of History. Alber, Freiburg and Munich 1958 ( important collection of essays )
  • Religious and secular world experience. Edited by Richard Schaeffler. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 978-3-465-01018-0
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