Kurt Flasch

Kurt Flasch ( born March 12, 1930 in Mainz ) is a German historian of philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Among others, he dealt in detail with the works of Augustine of Hippo, Dietrich of Freiberg, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa.

Life

Flasch attended from 1936 to 1940 the primary school in Mainz- Kastel, from 1940 until graduation in the summer of 1949, the secondary school in Mainz. He studied from autumn 1950 to January 1952 Philosophy at the Albertus Magnus College in Walberberg in Bonn ( 1925-1975 seat of the Philosophical- Theological College of the German Dominicans Province Teutonia and the Dominicans in Germany ), from the summer semester 1952 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main philosophy, history, Gräzistik and German. Here he was also in 1956 under John Hirsch Berger ( first reviewer ) and Max Horkheimer ( second supervisor ) PhD and habilitation in 1969. From 1970 to 1995 Flasch was professor of philosophy at the Philosophical Institute of the Ruhr - University Bochum. Calls to other departments in Vienna and Freiburg im Breisgau during this time he refused, but gave numerous guest lectures, including at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Flasch authored and edited stimulating overall representations of medieval philosophy as a whole and also by thinkers personalities in detail. Undisputed has its merits ( mostly editorial ) publication of the works of Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg and other authors in the corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi that by 1977 at the Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg appeared. The significantly anlehnende Nietzsche view of the intellectual developments in European philosophy summed Flasch in the winter semester 1994/95 in Bochum his farewell lecture " Why I can not be more Christ" together. These are the basis for his 2013 book initially introduced Why I Am Not a Christian. Report and reasoning, which is not addressed to the professional world, but to the general public, in which he justified his departure from Christianity.

Honors and Awards

Several notable colleges take him as a member, such as the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the oldest existing academy in the world whose membership is the highest academic honor that can be awarded in Italy. But the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere and the German Academy for Language and Poetry he belongs to. The latter gave him in 2000, the Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose. Flasch received the 2001 Kuno Fischer Prize of the University of Heidelberg for his biography of Cusa, in 2002 an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne and the 2009 Hannah Arendt Prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. In 2010 he was awarded the Lessing Prize for Criticism and the Essay Prize Tractatus, 2012 with the 50,000, - € awarded highly doped Joseph Breitbach Prize.

Works (selection)

  • Ordo dicitur multipliciter. A study of the philosophy of " ordo " in Thomas Aquinas. Diss phil. masch. Frankfurt 1956 (: Annex: " curriculum vitae " which until then the above data).
  • The spiritual mobilization. The German intellectuals and the First World War. An attempt. Alexander's Feast, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8286-0117-0.
  • Over the bridge. Mainz Childhood 1930-1949. H. Schmidt University Press, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-935647-13-1.
  • Reason and pleasure. Love Stories from the Decameron. C. H. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48959-1.
  • Augustin. Introduction to his thinking. 3rd edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-009962-5.
  • The philosophical thought in the Middle Ages. 3rd completely revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-010919-9.
  • Enlightenment in the Middle Ages. The conviction of 1277th Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Mainz, 1989, ISBN 3-87162-017-3.
  • Logic of terror. Augustine of Hippo. The doctrine of grace from 397 3rd edition. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-87162-078-2.
  • Poetry after the plague. The beginning of the Decameron. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-87162-027-0.
  • Nicholas of Cusa. History of development. Introductory lectures on his philosophy. 3rd edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-04059-0. ( Review: Th Ricklin In: . NZZ March 23, 1999 )
  • Philosophy has a history. Volume 1: Ancient Philosophy. Description of a way of thinking. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-465-03267-5.
  • What is time? Augustine of Hippo. The XI. Book of Confessions. Historical and philosophical study. Text - translation - comment. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-465-03374-4.
  • Philosophy has a history. Volume 2: Theory of Philosophy History. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-465-03431-7.
  • Eve and Adam. Transformations of a myth. C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52763-9.
  • Meister Eckhart. The birth of the "German mysticism " in the spirit of Arabic philosophy. C. H. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54182-8.
  • Dietrich of Freiberg. Philosophy, theology, natural science around 1300. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-465-03301-1.
  • Arenas of philosophy. Big controversies of Augustine to Voltaire. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-04055-2.
  • Meister Eckhart. Philosopher of Christianity. C. H. Beck, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60022-7.
  • Commedia and invitation to read Dante. 2 vols. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-015339-5.
  • What is God? The Book of 24 philosophers. Latin - German, first translated and annotated by Kurt Flasch. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60709-7.
  • Why I Am Not a Christian: report and reasoning. 4th edition. Publisher C.H.Beck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65284-4.
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