Philosophical Anthropology

Henrique Cláudio de Lima Vaz, S.J., was born in Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais) on 24 August 1921 and died in Belo Horizonte on 23 May 2002. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1938, studied philosophy at the Jesuit scholasticate in Nova Friburgo and, from 1945, in Rome, where he earned a licentiate at the Pontifical Gregorian University; he was ordained a priest in 1948 and took his doctorate in philosophy at the same institution in 1953, with a thesis on dialectic and contemplation in Plato. He is regarded as one of the most important Brazilian philosophers of the twentieth century for the systematic reach of his work. ...

Max Scheler Max Scheler was born in Munich on 22 August 1874 and died in Frankfurt on 19 May 1928. He studied in Munich, Berlin and Jena, where he took his doctorate under Rudolf Eucken. He met Edmund Husserl in 1901 and became one of the figures of the phenomenological movement, active in Munich and in the Göttingen circle. A convert to Catholicism, he was a professor at Cologne from 1919, where he was meant to be the Catholic thinker of the new social-science research institute, and in 1927 took up a chair at Frankfurt. His work is among the most influential in German philosophy of the first half of the twentieth century, though it remained unfinished. ...

René Girard René Girard was born in Avignon, France, on 25 December 1923 and died in Stanford, California, on 4 November 2015. Trained as a paleographer and archivist at the École des Chartes, he moved to the United States in 1947 and earned a doctorate in history from Indiana University in 1950. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and, from 1981, at Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 1995. He was elected to the Académie française in 2005. ...