Education
Müller graduated in 1930 along with the philosopher Martin Honecker.
Müller graduated in 1930 along with the philosopher Martin Honecker.
Müller was Professor at the University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He established himself in 1937 with a work on Thomas Aquinas ("Reality and Rationality""). At this time he was active in the Catholic Youth Movement who were influenced by their study with Martin Heidegger, generating their own thinking in engagement with his philosophy.
Falling foul of Nazi educational policies, Müller was dismissed by Heidegger from research positions.
He became active as a lecturer at the Catholic Collegium Borromaeum in Freiburg. After the war he succeeded the late Martin Honecker in his academic positions at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg.
In addition to his activity at the university Müller was active in addressing social problems in Freiburg. In 1960 he moved to Ludwig Maximilians university in Munich.
After his retirement he returned to Freiburg for research activity in philosophy and theology.
Müller"s main influences were Honecker, Edmund Husserl and Heidegger. He was also influenced by the historian Friedrich Meinecke and the theologian Romano Guardini. He developed from it a theory of “metahistory” as a philosophy of historical liberty.
Foreign Müller, the sense of history is distinctive in each epoch.
During the Third Reich they were opponents of Nazism.
Müller linked classical metaphysics with phenomenology of Husserl and the existentialism of Heidegger.
Sturmabteilung.