Joseph Marshall
Joseph Marshall, born July 1, 1878 at Charleroi (Belgium) and died on 11 December 1944 in Leuven (Belgium), was a priest Jesuit Belgian philosopher (metaphysician) and psychologist at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Catholic University Leuven.
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Training
After high school at College of the Sacred Heart , in Charleroi, Joseph Marshall enters the Society of Jesus in 1895. Before studying theology , and his commitment to education and future as a philosopher, Marshall made a doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Louvain (1901-1905). He was ordained priest in 1908.
Psychology and Philosophy
Marshal is particularly interested in experimental psychology which at the beginning of the twentieth century made significant progress. In 1911 Marshal working in the famous laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt , in Munich. In parallel, following the inspiration given by Leo XIII in the encyclical Aeterni Patris ( 1879 ), Marshal deepens the study of Thomism by measuring the current philosophical and scientific contemporaries Henri Poincare , Jules Lachelier , Emile Boutroux , Maurice Blondel , Henri Bergson and others. What emerges is a Thomism (known as neo-Thomism ') more dynamic than assimilating and transcendental idealism Kant.
The starting point of metaphysics
Over the years, and helped the daily contact with his students (he gives a strong focus on education that stimulates thinking and research in philosophy) it forges a synthesis of metaphysics in five 'books' successive, to be published between 1922 and 1947 (the last being posthumously). Together they will then often reissued under the title The starting point of metaphysics.
The psychology of the mystics
Although he made his name in the world of philosophy Marshal no secret that his main interest is the experimental psychology (which he continues to teach), and the relationship between spirituality and psychology. The action of God in the human soul and especially its impact on the personal psychology of that which he earns his thanks , have a field of study that fascinates. He wrote a series of articles on the subject, 1924 to 1937 , will be compiled into two volumes entitled Studies on the psychology of the mystics. The work is another 'starting point' in a field entirely new: The book is a reference.
Final years
Failing health made him abandon education earlier than expected. He devoted himself to writing while guiding many students in their research work. At the beginning of the war in 1940 , the Jesuit theologate Eegenhoven -Louvain, where he resides is destroyed in a fire. This is a great test for Marshal because it loses its records and much of his writings yet published. He died 11 December 1944.
Main works
- The starting point of metaphysics (5 Papers), Bruges, Louvain, 1922-47.
- Studies on the psychology of the mystics (2 vols.) Bruges-Brussels, 1924-37.
- A History of Modern Philosophy, Leuven, 1933.
Bibliography
- AA.VV. : Mixtures Joseph Marshall, (2 vols.), Brussels, 1950.
- CASULA, M.: Marshal and Kant, Rome, 1955.
- DONCEEL, JF: Philosophical Psychology, New York, 1961.
- LONERGAN, BF: Metaphysics as Horizon, in Gregorianum, Vol.44 (1964), pp.307-318. See also Lonergan, "Metaphysics as Horizon," Collection, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, vol. 4, Toronto, 1988, 188-204.
- Dirven, E.: An Essay on Thomism by Joseph Marshall SJ, Paris, 1965.
- SAVIGNANO, A.: Joseph Marshall, Filosofo della religione, Perugia, 1978.
- Kristo, J.: Marshal's Approach to Mysticism, Notre Dame, 1979.
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