Lorenz (Lorencino) Bruno Puntel (; born September 22, 1935) is a
Brazilian philosopher
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based in
Germany
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, who established the school of
Structural-systematic philosophy. Professor emeritus at the
University of Munich
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, Puntel has been named as one of the great contemporary philosophers, articulating his ideas from the most varied traditions.
Career
Puntel studied
philosophy
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,
theology
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,
philology
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and
psychology
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in
Munich
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,
Innsbruck
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,
Vienna
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Paris
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, and
Rome
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. He graduated in philosophy in Munich (1968) and in
Catholic theology
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(1969) in Innsbruck. He became a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the
University of Munich
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in 1978. He was a student of
Karl Rahner
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and studied with
Martin Heidegger
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, whose philosophy concerned him throughout his life.
Philosophical work
Puntel's thought tries to reconstruct the systematics of philosophy from a very unique viewpoint, which involves the elaboration of a theoretical language, abandoning the idea of a language of predicates. Puntel draws on sources ranging from
G. W. Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of math ...
,
German idealism
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, Heidegger's
phenomenology
Phenomenology may refer to:
Art
* Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties
Philosophy
* Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...
, and even
analytic philosophy
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.
Awards
Since 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Pittsburgh, Harvard and Princeton. Retired in 2001, In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Philosophy in Munich.
* Honorary doctorate from the University of Munich (Professor Emeritus)
* Findlay Book Prize
Bibliography
* Analogy and historicity. Philosophical-historical-critical attempt at the basic problem of metaphysics. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1969.
* Presentation, method and structure. Investigations in the Unity of Systematic Philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1973.
* Theories of Truth in Modern Philosophy. A critical and systematic presentation. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1978, . 3rd edition 1993.
* (Editor, Introduction) The concept of truth. New attempts at explanation. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987, .
* Basics of a theory of truth. W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, .
* Structure and being. A theoretical framework for a systematic philosophy. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2006, .
* Being and God. A systematic approach in dealing with M. Heidegger, E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2010, .
* with Emmanuel Tourpe: Philosophy as a systematic discourse. Dialogues about the basics of a theory of beings. Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014.
References
External links
Homepage at the LMU
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