Werner Beierwaltes (* 8 May 1931,

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; † 22 February 2019,

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) was a

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academic best known as a historian of philosophy. His most important areas of specialization were

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and

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

. He was an Emeritus

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of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His many books include ''Proklos: Grundzuge seiner Metaphysik'', ''Denken des Einen: Studien zur neuplatonischen Philosophie und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte'', ''Eriugena: Grundzuge seines Denkens'', ''Platonismus im Christentum'', and ''Platonismus und Idealismus''. He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal ''Dionysius'', in which English-language examples of his writings may be found. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the ''

International Journal of Philosophical Studies ''International Journal of Philosophical Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, ...

'', ''Quaestio'', and '' Anuario Filosófico''. He was a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1986 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was in addition admitted to the

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and the

Bavarian Order of Merit The Bavarian Order of Merit (german: Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria ...

References

External links

Official Website

Dionysius

The Legacy of Neoplatonism in F. W. J. Schelling's Thought

''Epekeina:'' A Remark on Heidegger's Reception of Plato
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Irish Academy Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1931 births 2019 deaths German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub