Karl Löwith

German philosopher (1897-1973)

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Born: 9 January 1897
Died: 26 May 1973
Works: 96

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Studienausgabe
人間存在の倫理
神と人間と世界
Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen
知識・信仰・懐疑

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1842-02-25
Active to: 1912-03-30

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5 total works indexed

Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 28,232x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,411x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,677x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x

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Quotes

“History, too, is meaningful only by indicating some transcendent purpose beyond the actual facts. ... To venture a statement about the meaning of historical events is possible only when their telos becomes apparent.”
“Peter is the apostle of the Father, Paul of the Son, while John is the apostle of the Spirit who is leading to the full truth of the future.”
“The mere fact that Christianity interprets itself as a new Testament, superseding an old one and fulfilling the promises of the latter, necessarily invites further progress and innovations, either religious or irreligious and antireligious—hence the derivation of the secular irreligions of progress from the eschatology of the church, together with their theological pattern.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1897-01-09 ) 9 January 1897, Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria , German Empire
Died: 26 May 1973 (1973-05-26) (aged 76), Heidelberg , West Germany
Spouse: Ada Löwith
Alma mater: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , University of Freiburg
Doctoral advisor: Martin Heidegger
Era: 20th-century philosophy
Region: Western philosophy
School: Continental philosophy , Phenomenology
Institutions: Tohoku University , Hartford Theological Seminary , New School for Social Research , Heidelberg University
Main interests: Philosophy of history , Philosophical anthropology , Secularization , Existentialism
Notable ideas: Secularization thesis (modern progress as secularized eschatology)

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date of birth: 1897-01-09
date of death: 1973-05-26
name in native language: Karl Löwith
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Karl Löwith ( German: [ˈløːvɪt]; 9 January 1897 – 26 May 1973) was a German philosopher best known for his critiques of historicism and his analysis of secularization in modern thought. A student of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl during the Weimar Republic, Löwith developed a distinctive philosophical position that questioned the progressivist assumptions underlying much of nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy, and is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

His most influential work, Meaning in History (1949), argued that Enlightenment philosophies of history from Giambattista Vico to Karl Marx represented secularised versions of Christian eschatology, transforming theological concepts of divine providence and salvation into immanent historical processes whilst retaining their underlying structure, which he argues is incoherent without their providential origin. This analysis established him as a major humanist critic of the notion that history possesses inherent meaning or direction (telos).