Emerich Coreth

Emerich Coreth
Emerich Coreth
Born	10 August 1919; Raabs an der Thaya, Austria
Died	1 September 2006 (aged 87); Innsbruck, Austria
Occupation	Philosopher, priest

Emerich Coreth (10 August 1919 – 1 September 2006) was an Austrian Philosopher, Jesuit and Catholic Priest. He is well known for his works on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. A close associate of Karl Rahner, Coreth is a renowned neo-Thomist of 20th century. He was the Rector of the University of Innsbruck and the Provincial of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus.

Philosophy

Coreth specialises in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and history of philosophy. He is considered one of the philosophers who sought the creative recovery of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysics through the transcendental method introduced by Joseph Maréchal.[1] Particularly, Coreth and other theologians attempted to revive the metaphysics of realism (Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics) by addressing the failure of Kantian philosophy using its presuppositions.[1] One of Coreth's most important works was Metaphysik where he wrote about the Christian metaphysics of Being so that it presented a completely transcendentally reformulated version.[2] This book also refuted critics such as Etienne Gilson, who argued that transcendental turn among Thomists can only lead to phenomenalism or idealism.[3]

Coreth maintained that instead of having an objective, metaphysics only has a subjective function. Here, metaphysics loses its foundation in being but Coreth said that "our a priori knowledge is metaphysical knowledge of being, which opens for us the absolute horizon of being as such."[3]

Books

Das dialektische Sein in Hegels Logik. Wien: Herder 1952
Grundfragen des menschlichen Daseins. Innsbruck; Wien; München: Tyrolia 1956
Metaphysik: Eine methodisch-systematische Grundlegung. Innsbruck; Wien; München: Tyrolia 1961
Grundfragen der Hermeneutik: Ein philosophischer Beitrag. Freiburg i. Br.; Basel; Wien: Herder 1969
Was ist der Mensch?: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Anthropologie. Innsbruck, Wien, München: Tyrolia 1973 ISBN 3-7022-1098-9
With Harald Schöndorf: Philosophie des 17. und. 18. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart u.a.: Kohlhammer Verlag 1983 ISBN 3-17-008030-X
With Peter Ehlen und Josef Schmidt: Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart u.a.: Kohlhammer Verlag 1984 ISBN 3-17-008031-8
Vom Sinn der Freiheit. Innsbruck; Wien: Tyrolia 1985 ISBN 3-7022-1560-3
With Peter Ehlen, Gerd Haeffner und Friedo Ricken: Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart u.a.: Kohlhammer Verlag 1986 ISBN 3-17-008462-3
(Ed.): Christliche Philosophie im katholischen Denken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. 3 Bde. Graz; Wien; Köln: Styria 1987-1990
Grundriss der Metaphysik. Innsbruck; Wien: Tyrolia 1994 ISBN 3-7022-1951-X
Die Theologische Fakultät Innsbruck: ihre Geschichte und wissenschaftliche Arbeit von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Innsbruck: Leopold-Franzens-Univ. 1995 ISBN 3-901249-26-5
Beiträge zur christlichen Philosophie. Hrsg. von Christian Kanzian. (Bibliogr. E. Coreth S. 409 - 415) Innsbruck; Wien: Tyrolia 1999 ISBN 3-7022-2257-X
Gott im philosophischen Denken. Stuttgart u.a.: Kohlhammer Verlag 2001 ISBN 3-17-016723-5
Otto Muck (Hg.): Sinngestalten. Metaphysik in der Vielfalt menschlichen Fragens. Festschrift für Emerich Coreth. Innsbruck/Wien 1989. (Bibliogr. E. Coreth S. 389 - 408): Tyrolia 1989 ISBN 3-7022-1697-9

References

Kim, Younhee (2008). The Quest for Plausible Christian Discourse in a World of Pluralities: The Evolution of David Tracy's Understanding of "Public Theology". Oxford: Peter Lang. p. 178. ISBN 9783039107339.
Puntel, Lorenz; White, Alan (2011). Being and God: A Systematic Approach in Confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Marion. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780810127708.
Long, Eugene Thomas (2003). Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 348. ISBN 0792362853.

External links

Literature by and about Emerich Coreth in the German National Library catalogue
Kurzbiografie und Publikationen ab 1989
Józef Niewiadomski: Aus einem Guss – In Memoriam Emerich Coreth SJ
Emerich Coreth in German Wikipedia: In German

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[:0-1] Kim, Younhee (2008). The Quest for Plausible Christian Discourse in a World of Pluralities: The Evolution of David Tracy's Understanding of "Public Theology". Oxford: Peter Lang. p. 178. ISBN 9783039107339.

[2] Puntel, Lorenz; White, Alan (2011). Being and God: A Systematic Approach in Confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Marion. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780810127708.

[:1-3] Long, Eugene Thomas (2003). Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900-2000. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 348. ISBN 0792362853.