Walter Schulz

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

Career

Schulz studied from 1933 to 1938 Classical Philology, Philosophy and Protestant theology at the universities of Marburg, where he heard in philosophy Karl Lowith, Gerhard Krüger, Hans -Georg Gadamer and was impressed in theology of Rudolf Bultmann and short in Wroclaw. He was followed by Hans -Georg Gadamer in 1939 to Leipzig, where he passed his state examination in philology and philosophy. After his second, was severely wounded as a soldier in World War II, he received his doctorate in 1944 with Hans -Georg Gadamer in Leipzig on the immortality of evidence in Plato's Phaedo. Schulz habilitated in Heidelberg in 1951 with a dissertation on Schelling's late philosophy. In 1955 he was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen. Making a call to Freiburg im Breisgau to the Chair Martin Heidegger, he refused in 1958. Until his retirement in 1978, he was one of the Tübingen scholars with the largest audience.

Work

In his habilitation thesis, published in 1955, the completion of German Idealism in the later philosophy of Schelling Schulz developed the thesis that in contrast to the conventional representation not in Hegel's system, the theoretical peak of the German idealistic philosophy was to be seen, but in Schelling's later philosophy. Schulz developed here the outlines of its deployed in another work history of philosophy integration of idealism and philosophy of the late 19th century in the overall context of European metaphysics - a connection that will be seen more and more as a rejection of metaphysical certainties.

In the following years he worked with articles on the position of philosophizing about in Nicholas of Cusa, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Søren Kierkegaard this central idea further out, namely, that philosophy has lost its justification from the context of European classical metaphysics, yet in view of the brokenness of the human relation to the world is further needed as a critical instance of thinking. In his major works in the philosophy changed world - which found a wide echo - and I and the world he represents this issue to the center of the attempt to give a local and boundary determination of in thought vergewissernden subjectivity.

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