Harald Holz

Harald Holz (born 14 May 1930, in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German philosopher, logician, mathematician (autodidact), poet and novelist. The focal point of his work was and is the development of a philosophy of great sincerity.

Holz further develops the transcendental philosophy, liberated it from the convergence of Neokantianism. Following his reevaluation and new interpretation of the German Idealism he developed a new transcendental basis of reflexion for it. During this endeavour, he critically discussed transcendental pragmatism, Neo-Empirism and the so-called Postmodernism. He taught at universities in Bochum/Germany, Münster/Germany, Washington D.C., Córdoba (Argentinia), Valparaíso (Chile)) and Buenos Aires. Holz published many books on epistemology, metaphysics, ontology, ethics and social philosophy, philosophy of culture, comparative philosophy, history and natural philosophy.

Harald Holz belongs to the minority [1] of contemporary philosophers, who critically view fundamental positions of contemporary thought.

Life

Holz studied philosophy from 1953 to 1957 in Pullach im Isartal/Germany (lic. phil. schol.) and from 1959 until 1961 Catholic Theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany (bac. theol.). He continued his study of philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn/Germany. There he received his research doctorate in 1964 with Gottfried Martin with the thesis Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.[2]

Since 1964 he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum/Germany. In 1969 he published his Second Book with the university entitled Speculation and Facticity. On middle-aged and late Schelling's concept of freedom.[3] Since 1971 he was Research Associate and Professor with Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1976 he was Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Fundamental Philosophical-Theological Questions at the Westfalian Wilhelm University Münster/Germany. In 1979 and in 1983 he was visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Further he was director, together with E. Wolf-Gazo, implementing the first Inter-national Congress on the Philosophy of A. North Whitehead 1981 at the University of Bonn,[4] then director of the congress: ‘Kant in the Hispanidad’, together with J. E. Dotti and H. Radermacher 1983 at the university of Cologne,[5] and further director, together with H. Radermacher and A. Engstler, of the congress: ‘The liberation of Hispano-America, Philosophical contexts’ 1984 at the university at Münster/Westfalia.[6]

Since 1983 he was also Professor at the Philosophical Institute at the University Münster. 1995 he retired, but continue to conduct research and teach. He was invited visiting professor at the following universities: 1994 Universität Córdoba (Argentinia), 1999 Univ. Catol. Valparaíso (Chile), 2011 Univ. Catol. Buenos Aires. He frequently receives invitations for speeches at international universities and Academies, e.g. in Buenos Aires (frequently), Hsi-An, Kyoto, Lima, Luzern, Málaga, Montreal, Murcia, Nanking, Peking, Prag, Salzburg, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Taipei (frequently), Warschau, Vienna (two times). 2013 he became a Corresponding member of he ‚National Academy of sciences in Buenos Aires’/Argentina.

Philosophy

Foundation

Holz' philosophy stands for a total renewal of the philosophical system through a theoretical, neo-transcendental approach.

Replacement of the orientation towards substance by an orientation towards relation

As a systematic basic concept he replaces substance metaphysics totally by relation subsistence: Relationality is no longer an addition to existing concepts, but its reasoning and in the first place constitutes terminativity.[7]

Holz also further developed the game philosophy, holism, applied to regional philosophy, logic application in n-fold scale-up, mathematics, moral philosophy, hermeneutics and the philosophy of history, cosmology, anthropology: spirit-matter ratio as philosophical limes-correlation, history of philosophy. He also published several volumes of poems and novels.

Works (selection)

23 of 45 volumes of the 'Complete Works of Harald Holz' have been published until 2016, most of them in German.

Monographs

Papers (selection)

Editorship

References

  1. ↑ Harald Holz is a member of a group of philosophers, who calls itself a minority of philosophers.
  2. ↑ Harald Holz, Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics, Mainz: Grünewald Press.
  3. ↑ Harald Holz, Speculation and Facticity. On middle-aged and late Schelling's concept of freedom, Bonn: Bouvier Press.
  4. ↑ Cf. 'information philosophie' (2010)1:45–51.
  5. ↑ Cf. e.g. M. Caimi, in: Kantstudien 82 (1991) 224 – 227.
  6. ↑ Information: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne/Germany.
  7. ↑ Harald Holz, Metaphysische Untersuchungen, Bern, Frankfurt et al., Peter Lang, 187.


Further reading

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, February 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.