Ernst Tugendhat, an influential German thinker who taught on the College of Heidelberg, the Free College of Berlin, and different universities, has died.
The next memorial discover was written by Stefan Gosepath (Free College of Berlin).
The thinker Ernst Tugendhat (1930-2023) died on March 13, 2023. Tugendhat was an eminent up to date German thinker who made essential contributions to re-establishing analytic philosophy in Germany after the Nazi period, when nearly all analytical philosophers had needed to depart.
On the identical time, Tugendhat distinguished himself as an middleman between continental and analytic philosophy.
Educated by Heidegger within the Aristotelian and phenomenological traditions, he supplied authentic arguments to indicate that analytic philosophy of language is the end result of Aristotle’s ontological mission. In his systematic, historically-oriented treatise on (analytic) philosophy of language (Conventional and Analytical Philosophy, P.A. Gorner trans., 1982), he bridges the hole between continental and analytic methods of philosophizing.
In response to the custom of the so-called philosophy of consciousness, Tugendhat applies linguistic evaluation to elucidate the issue of consciousness of the self (Self-Consciousness and Self-Dedication, P. Stern trans.,1986). He argues that Wittgenstein’s view of self-knowledge and Heidegger’s account of sensible self-understanding are intrinsically linked, as a result of one is just aware of oneself when one asks what sort of human being one aspires to be. This self-addressed query can be central in Tugendhat’s conception of ethics: for him, morality is justifiable solely in relation to conceptions of the goodness of the self. His lectures on ethics (Vorlesungen über Ethik, 1993), wherein he developed his moral views, are thought-about essentially the most vital contribution to German systematic ethical philosophy of their time alongside the discourse ethics of Apel and Habermas.
Born right into a Jewish household in Brno, Tugendhat emigrated to Venezuela; he obtained his BA at Stanford in 1949, his PhD at Freiburg in 1956, and his Habilitation at Tübingen in 1966. He held professorships in Heidelberg, Starnberg, and Berlin.
Readers all in favour of studying extra about Professor Tugendhat’s writings can browse a few of them here and here.
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