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Lorenz B. Puntel

Disciplines:
metaphysics
theology/ontology

Summary

German philosopher who developed a comprehensive systematic ontology (Strukturontologie) arguing that Being as such — the absolutely universal dimension — is the subject matter of ontology and must be analyzed through a framework of structures.

Core Contribution

Structural ontology: Being is not a genus (Aristotle) but the absolutely universal dimension of intelligibility; ontology must develop a theory of structures (logical, ontological, alethic) that constitute the intelligibility of Being as such.

Notable Works & Achievements

Structure and Being

Being and God

Historical Influences

Gottlob Frege Aristotle Gottfried Leibniz

Intellectual Lineage

German Analytic Philosophy Classical Metaphysics

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter van Inwagen Kit Fine

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Systematic Ontology

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