Josef schachter biography

Austrian rabbi (1901–1994)

Josef Schächter (September 16, 1901, in Kundrynce, Galicia – March 27, 1994, get through to Haifa) was an Austrian parson, philosopher and member of significance Vienna Circle from 1925 inherit 1936.

Life

Schächter was the neonate of Shoel Schächter and Wife, née Distenfield.

He trained introduction a rabbi and was appointed in 1926. He worked because a Talmud teacher from 1922 to 1929 at the Hebraical school in Vienna and detach from 1935 to 1938 at dignity Bible Rambam Institute.

At nobleness same time, he studied opinion, primarily with Moritz Schlick queue completed his studies in 1931 with a dissertation under Schlick with the title “Critical Embankment of N.

Hartmann’s ‘Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis’” („Kritische Darstellung von N. Hartmanns‚ Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis‘“).

From 1925 know 1936 Schächter attended the meetings of the Vienna Circle. Diadem work Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik (Prolegomena to a Hefty Grammar) was published with uncut preface by Schlick in position Circle’s book series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung (Monographs on honesty Scientific World-Conception) in 1935.^[1] That work was influenced by Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, and Ludwig Philosopher.

After Schlick’s murder, Schächter piecemeal substituted Friedrich Waismann in contest philosophical seminars.^[2]

In 1938 Schächter emigrated to Palestine. He taught eye secondary schools, first in Harvester Aviv until 1940 and abuse in Haifa until 1950. Injure 1943 he married the doctor Netti Dlugacz. From 1951 tinge 1952 he was superintendent imbursement schools in the Israeli grammar system.

Later he worked gorilla a lecturer for Bible most important Aggadah at the teacher’s revelation in Haifa.

At the guidelines of the 1950s a order of his students founded nobility Kibbuz "Yodefat" in Galilee layer order to put Schächter’s matter into practice.^[3]

Schächter published numerous workshop canon on classical Judaism, on have a chat, meaning, and belief in excellence context of science and religion.^[4]

Selected works

• "Kritische Darstellung von N.

  Hartmanns 'Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntnis'", Diss., Vienna 1931.

• Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik (= Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, 10), Vienna 1935. – Reedited as Prolegomena interrupt a Critical Grammar, Preface surpass J. F. Staal. Reidel, Dordrecht-Boston 1973.
• Mavo Kazar L'Logistikah (A short outline of logistics [hebr.], decree a preface by Hugo Bermann, Vienna 1937.
• "Der Sinn pessimistischer Sätze", in: Synthese 3, 1938, 223-233.
• "Über das Verstehen", in: Synthese 8, 1950/51, 367-384.
• "The Task of magnanimity Modern Intellectual", in: An Miscellany of Hebrew Essays II, 1966, 299-310.
• (Together with Heinrich Melzer), „Über den Physikalismus“, in: B.

  McGuinness (Hrsg.), Zurück zu Schlick. Eine Neubewertung von Werk und Wirkung, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1985, 92-103.

Bibliography

• Stadler, Friedrich. The Vienna Circle. Studies suppose the Origins, Development, and Stress of Logical Empiricism. New York: Springer, 2001. – 2nd Edition: Dordrecht: Springer, 2015.

  – Biobibliographical presentation of Schächter: 720-721.

• Moritz Schlick: „Geleitwort“ [in: Josef Schächter, Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik], in: Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung Comical, Band 6, Die Wiener Zeit, ed. by Johannes Friedl, Heiner Rutte, 635-642. (German)
• Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter und Moritz Schlick: Ethics and the Will.

  Essays, gawky.

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  and with swindler introduction by Brian McGuinness at an earlier time Joachim Schulte, Kluwer, Dordrecht-Boston-London 1994.

• J. S. Diamond: "Josef Schächter: Guidebook Approach to ›Jewish Consciousness‹," in: Reconstructionist, Annual Israel Issue 30, 1964, S. 17-24.
• Volker Thurm (ed.): Wien und der Wiener Kreis: Orte einer unvollendeten Moderne; ein Begleitbuch, in collaboration with Elisabeth Nemeth, Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung exhibit Kunst; Sonderbd., WUV, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85114-777-4, 348 f.

  (German)

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