Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Professor of Philosophy
Phone: (510) 883-2074
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M.A. in History, Art History, and Philosophy, University of Freiburg, Germany;
M.Div., M.A. in Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology; Ph.D.
in Philosophy, University of Munich, Germany
The Truth will set you free. ~ Jesus Christ
Fr. Anselm seeks to awaken the minds of his students to the fascination of
being and truth. Fr. Anselm combines dialogue, Socratic questioning and lecture
for an engaging and intellectual structure in his classes. His students come
away with not only knowledge but also critical thinking skills, awareness of
problems and a resistance against fallacies and fashions. Fr. Anselm’s
academic interests are wide, ranging from the realm of aesthetics and metaphysics
to scholastic philosophy, epistemology, hermeneutics, religion and the arts,
and art history. Fr. Anselm is knowledgeable in Continental, Medieval and Scholastic
philosophers as well as the Ancients, such as Plato and Aristotle.
Current Research and Teaching Interests
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophical Aesthetics
- Kant and German Idealism
- Hermeneutics
- Phenomenology and Existentialism
- Thomas Aquinas
Courses Taught
- "Leibniz' Theodicy"
- "Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind"
- “The Late Wittgenstein”
- “Great Philosophical Questions”
- Modern Philosophy
- I. Kant: “Critique of Pure Reason”
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- Modern Philosophy
- Philosophical Aesthetics
- Karl Rahner
- Theological German
- Phenomenology
- Contemporary Philosophy
Fr. Anselm brings in dialogue modern epistemology,
philosophy of language and Aristotelian and Thomistic thought. His thesis is
about Wittgenstein and modern philosophy of language and their influences on
modern theology, the epistemology of theology and fundamental theology. Fr.
Anselm is also working on an article on the development of the concept of will
from Augustine to Kant in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie vol.
12 and an extended version of the same topic in Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte.
Fr. Anselm will be translating some of the “Disputed Questions“
of Thomas Aquinas for a German edition.
Publications
Books:
Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl. Die Metaphysik der Willensfreiheit zwischen
Antonio Perez, S. J. (1599-1649) und G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716)
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997). (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 72)
Beyond Modernism? - George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology (Neuried: Ars Una 2005) = Beiträge zur Fundamentaltheologie und Religionsphilosophie, Band 9
Other:
Konträre oder kontradiktorische Freiheit: Gibt es reine Unterlassungen? In: Leibniz und Europa. VI. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß (Hannover 1994), 613-620.
La Bavaria porta la sua croce, in: La Nuova Europa, Rivista Internazionale Di Cultura 5 (1996), 21-25.
Wohin führt uns die Kirchenmusik? In: Anzeiger für die Seelsorge 7 (1995) 361-362.
Unmöglichkeit, in: Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie vol. 11 (Basel: Schwabe, 2001) 242-252.
Unmöglichkeit, in: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 43 (2001), 7-36.
Wille II, in: Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie vol. 12 (Basel: Schwabe, 2005), 769-783.
Die Entwicklung des Konzeptes des Willens von Augustinus bis Kant, in: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 46 (2005), 29-67.
Truth Makers: On Robert Miner’s Genealogy of the genealogists, in: Nova et Vetera, forthcoming
A volume of a new translation and commentary on Aquinas’ Quaestiones Disputatae into German is also in preparation.
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