Ezra Heymann (1928 in
Cernăuţi
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– 22 September 2014 in
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) was a philosopher and university professor.
Career
Born in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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(currently
Ukraine
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) to a German family of Jewish descent, during the 1940s his family avoided deportation to
Transnistria
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while living in
Czernowitz
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during his youth thanks to the protection of
Traian Popovici
Traian Popovici (October 17, 1892 – June 4, 1946) was a Romanian lawyer and mayor of Chernivtsi, Cernăuți during World War II, known for saving 20,000 Jews of Bukovina from deportation.
Life
Popovici was born in Udești, Rușii Mănăs ...
. In 1946 Heymann began studies in Philosophy and Literature at the
University of Bucharest
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, then to the
University of Vienna
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and in 1947 to the
University of Heidelberg
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where he completed his doctoral degree under
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 on hermeneutics, '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode'').
Life
Family and early life
Gad ...
. In 1953 he emigrated to Uruguay teaching at the "Instituto de Profesores Artigas" and at the University of the Republic until
Juan María Bordaberry
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came into power. He was forced to leave the country after confronting local authorities regarding autonomy for the University. He then moved to Venezuela in 1974, teaching first at the
Universidad Simón Bolívar and at the
Central University of Venezuela
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until his retirement in 2006, although he kept his position as active professor for the rest of his life. His research focused on Kant and in classical German philosophy. His testimony as a
Holocaust
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survivor was compiled in the book "Exilio a La Vida: Sobrevivientes Judíos De La Shoá".
Works
*Decantaciones kantianas:Trece estudios críticos y una revisión de conjunto. UCV, Caracas, 1999.
*Los marcos doctrinales y la apertura fenomenológica: Vías de la exploración kantiana. Estudios de Filosofía, ISSN 0121-3628, Nº. 49, 2014, págs. 87-102.
*Analysis, Synthesis und Begriffsbestimmung. Zur Frage des Charakters der philosophischen Aussagen in der kantischen Theorie der Erfahrung und der Wissenschaft. In Valerio Hrsg V. Rohden, Ricardo Terra & Guido Almeida (eds.), Recht Und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants. .
*Las referencias internas y externas de la conciencia en la discusión fenomenológica. Apuntes Filosóficos 20 (2011), ISSN 1316-7553, Nº. 38, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Dossier Filosofía de la Mente), págs. 27-38
* La ética kantiana en una lectura de revisión. Episteme 28 (2008):171-180.
*La crítica de la visión moral del mundo. Ideas y valores: Revista Colombiana de Filosofía 133 (2007): 79–93.ISSN 0120-0062,
*Monismos y dualismos en Descartes y en Nietzsche. Cuaderno gris, ISSN 0213-6872, Nº. 5, 2001 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Nietzsche y la "gran política" : antídotos y venenos del pensamiento nietzscheano / coord. por Alfonso Moraleja), , págs. 239-246
*Ética y axiología al terminar el siglo: Un balance. Enrahonar: Quaderns de filosofía, Nº 32–33, 2001, pp. 225–233. ISSN 0211-402X.
* Ética y axiología al terminar el siglo. Un balance. Enrahonar 32 (2001):225-233
* En torno a la imaginación en Kant. Apuntes Filosóficos 17 (2000).
* Ética y Estética. Apuntes Filosóficos 15 (1999).
* Filosofía trascendental mundaneizada. Ideas Y Valores 100 (1996):37-47.
*¿ Crisis de la racionalidad científica?. Apuntes Filosóficos 5 (1994).
* El campo semántico del pensamiento. Descartes y Kant. Apuntes Filosóficos 6 (1994).
*¿Cuál es la fundamentación kantiana de los derechos humanos?. Apuntes Filosóficos 1 (1992).
* La filosofía del conocimiento kantiana y tà protà katà physin. Cuadernos venezolanos de filosofía 13. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 1989. .
External links
Obituary Newspaper El Universitario, Central University of VenezuelaObituary and Profile, La Razón DiaryProfile Journal EpistemeProfile at PhilPapers
References
1928 births
2014 deaths
Writers from Chernivtsi
Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
20th-century Venezuelan philosophers
21st-century Venezuelan philosophers
Academic staff of Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)
Venezuelan women educators
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