Education
Born in Antwerp, Flam studied social sciences, political history, philosophy and physics at the University of Ghent and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in history.
philosopher university professor
Born in Antwerp, Flam studied social sciences, political history, philosophy and physics at the University of Ghent and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in history.
Together with Alphonse Dewaelhens, Chaïm Perelman and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the 1960s until the 1980s. During World World War II he was imprisoned in the Dossin station in Mechelen and in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the war he became a professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
He founded the Vlaamse vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte (1959) (East: Flemish League for Philosophy), later of Aurora.
He became director of the magazine Geschiedenis in het onderwijs (East: History of education). Flam died in Vilvoorde on 29 September 1995.