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Trying to recall a philosopher
Just an idle inquiry, but I was trying to recall a philosopher someone once recommended I read. If I recall correctly he was an Austrian philosopher who defended common sense and realism. He wrote, party, I think in the 1920s and died around then. I don't think he is well known. Anyone know of such a figure?
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In principle there are two possibilities, of which the second, IMV, sounds a lot more like you describe:
(1838 – 1917)
(1853 – 1920)
A lot of info on both, and on all ontologists of the XIX and XX centuries, here:
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@Jeremy,
Surely you are not talking about Franz Brentano?
@Johannes,
I think Meinong was a Representationlist (he certainly was a Nominalist) actually though I can’t quite remember where I got that from – Gustav Bergmann maybe?
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@Johannes,
I think Meinong was a Representationlist (he certainly was a Nominalist) actually though I can’t quite remember where I got that from – Gustav Bergmann maybe?
"Bergmann can therefore regard Meinong as a valid ally in the battle he has launched against representationalism ... and for a realistic ontology. Meinong supossedly reaches conclusions that are strictly compatible with a realistic ontology"
Rosaria Egidi and Guido Bonino 2008. "Fostering the Ontological Turn: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)", p. 207.
Bonino's review of Bergmann's critique of Brentano and Meinong:
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@Johannes,
I think Meinong was a Representationlist (he certainly was a Nominalist) actually though I can’t quite remember where I got that from – Gustav Bergmann maybe?"Bergmann can therefore regard Meinong as a valid ally in the battle he has launched against representationalism ... and for a realistic ontology. Meinong supossedly reaches conclusions that are strictly compatible with a realistic ontology"
Rosaria Egidi and Guido Bonino 2008. "Fostering the Ontological Turn: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)", p. 207.
Bonino's review of Bergmann's critique of Brentano and Meinong:
Thanks Johannes, I'll print that essay out and give it a proper read through this evening. I'm quite particle to Bergmann - he doesn't get mentioned enough around these parts.
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No, not Brentano or Meinong. He was alive and writing well into the 1920s, I think. I think his name began with an H, though I cannot be sure. Not completely sure he was Austrian. Could be German or Swiss. Not very helpful, I know.
I don't think he was very well known, as not only had I not heard of him, but his wiki was a small one.
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Hmmmm what about Dietrich Von Hildebrand?
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No, not Von Hildebrand either. I don't think he was an important figure in the Church. He struck me as resembling Max Picard in some ways: someone committed to common sense and realism - more interested in traditional philosophy (Plato, the Schoolmen) than phenomologists or idealists, but not a Neo-Scholastic either. Definitely not very well known.
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The thinker I had in mind was Aurel Kolnai. Not sure why I thought he died around the 1920s or why I thought his name began with an H. Also he was influenced by Husserl and phenomenology:
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