Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak | |
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 Professor Peperzak in 1967 | |
| Born | 3 July 1929 (age 96) |
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| Thesis | Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde (1960) |
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| Era | 20th century Philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Continental |
| Main interests | Ethics,Christian philosophy,philosophy of Hegel and Emmanuel Levinas |
Adriaan Theodoor Basilius (Ad) Peperzak (born 3 July 1929) is a Dutch educator,editor and philosophical author.
Peperzak was born on the island of Java (Indonesia) as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in Venray,and theology in La Verna and Weert (in the Netherlands). He obtained a licentiate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Universitécatholique de Louvain in Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D. in the Humanities at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in Paris. His Ph.D. dissertation Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde (director:Paul Ricoeur),was published in 1960 and republished in 1969. [1]
Peperzak's research in the history of philosophy has focused on Hegel (six books and numerous articles) and Emmanuel Levinas (two books and three others edited). He also published on Plato,Aristotle,Bonaventure,Descartes,Heidegger,and Ricoeur,and on thematic questions in ethics,social and political philosophy,metaphilosophy,and the philosophy of religion.
He is a member of the board of editors for Fordham University Press series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. He is Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. [2] Before,he was a professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Department of Metaphysics &Epistemology),and at Utrecht University (History of Modern Philosophy) for several years.
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