Background
Frings, Manfred Servatius was born on February 27, 1925 in Cologne, N. Rhine, Germany. Came to the United States, 1958. United States citizen.
Son of Gottfried and Maria (Over) Frings.
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This book is designed to fill a long-standing gap in the general literature of 20th century philosophy in that it offers a comprehensive view of the philosophy of Max Scheler (1874-1928) and opens up substantial discussions that have hitherto been largely overlooked. The book is solely based on the original texts of the German Collected Edition as well as posthumous and untranslated materials. References to English translations have been made whenever available. The Mind of Max Scheler familiarizes the reader with strains of European thought that are rapidly gaining interest in the Americas, Asia, and Europe itself. Already the pivotal questions, "Who are we?" "What is a human being" reveal the relevance Scheler's thought has to the self-questioning stance that appears to mark this century's philosophy as a whole. He also presents us with a cosmic view of what it means to be human, and one is amazed at the scope of his approach that goes beyond his better known European contemporaries Heidegger, Husserl, Ortega, or philosophers of our present time. He addresses spurious value patterns that suffuse the age of capitalism and provides answers, among them, the gleaning of historical textures that are emerging toward the future and through which a lingering awareness of the eternal will eventually surface from the depths of human existence.
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(The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger's mos...)
The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger's most important works, for nowhere else does he give a comparably thorough explanation of what is arguably the most fundamental and abiding theme of his entire philosophy, namely the difference between truth as the "unhiddenness of beings" and truth as the "correctness of propositions". For Heidegger, it is by neglecting the former primordial concept of truth in favor of the latter derivative concept that Western philosophy, beginning already with Plato, took off on its "metaphysical" course towards the bankruptcy of the present day.
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Frings, Manfred Servatius was born on February 27, 1925 in Cologne, N. Rhine, Germany. Came to the United States, 1958. United States citizen.
Son of Gottfried and Maria (Over) Frings.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Cologne, North Rhine, 1953. Postgraduate, Staatsexamen, 1956.
School master German Higher Education, North Rhine, 1956-1958. Assistant professor philosophy University Detroit, 1958-1962. Associate professor philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 1962-1966.
Professor philosophy DePaul University, Chicago, 1966-1992, professor emeritus, since 1992. Director Max Scheler Archives, Albuquerque, 1970-2004. Guest professor University Cologne, 1979, 83.
Guest lecturer University Mainz, Freiburg, Germany, Oxford University, England, University Sorbonne, University Paris, 1980-1981. President Max Scheler Gesellschaft, 1993-1997, honorary president, since 1997.
(The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger's mos...)
(This book is designed to fill a long-standing gap in the ...)
Member British Society Phenomenology (correspondent 1975-1996), Heidegger Circuit in American (initiator), National Association Scholars, Air Force Association.
Married Karin Frambach, December 30, 1985.