The Vice-President

Guram Tevzadze

Date of birth: January 30, 1932.

Academician of Georgian Academy of Sciences
Professor of Tbilisi State University, philosopher

In 1958 was awarded a Candidate's degree
In 1963 - a Doctor's degree.

The field of his scientific activity is history of philosophy (Georgian and German).
He teaches at Tbilisi State University, delivers a course of lecture on Medieval philosophy and a special course on Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason". He is Head of the Chair of History of Philosophy at the University and Academician- Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences at the Georgian Academy of Scieces. He is a member of Goethe International Society (Weimar) and of the Philosophical Society of Georgia. He presented the Principle of equal primacy of knowledge and faith. He considers that every kind of irrationalism and mysticism, in the end, is based on selfcriticism of human reson. He sees the existence of this principle not only in Kant, but in Plato, Neoplatonians, and in modern, so-called critical rationalism and in post-modern philisophy as well. He has published 102 scientific works in Georgian, Russian, German and Chinese; among them four books. Reviews on them were published in Georgian, Russian, German and English. He delivered lectures at the universities of Moscow (1981), Jena (GErmany 1979), Changchun (China 1990), and at the institute of Philosophy and Law in Vilnius (Lithuania 1986).

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Scientific articles and books by prof. Guram Tevzadze:

• Theory of Knowledge of German Neokantianism. Tbilisi 1963.
• On Understanding of Chapter 51 of Johane Petrizis' "Commentaries" (Proceedings the Academy of Sc. of Georgia, 1964)
• Critique of Ontology of N. Hartmann.Tbilisi 1967.
• Immanuel Kant.Tbilisi 1974 (On Russian-Tbilisi 1979)
• The Structure of Transcendental Apperception (Proceedings of III International Kant-Congress, 1970. Holland 1972).
• Aristotle in Johane Petrizis' "Commentaries"(Proceedings of Jena University. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche R. 1977, N1).
• Kant und Goethe on Knowledge of Nature (Goethe-Jahrbuch. Weimar 1979)
• On the specificity of Philosophical Mrthod ("Georgiaca", Jena 1979).
• Critique of Heodeggerian Theory of Truth (Proceedengs of the University of Lodz. Poland 1979).
• Fichte about Atheism (Philosophie and Religion" Weimar 1981).
• Apostle Paul in "Corpus Areopagiticum" (Philosophical- Historical Investigation, I. Minsk 1991).
• Slaiz Pascal ("Philosophenlexicon. Berlin 1982).
• Friedrich Albert Lange (Philosophenlexicon. Berlin 1982).
• Kant and Fichte in Goethe's "Faust" ("Collection of Essays on Kant".Kaliningrad 1982).
• Ascenting Triad in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Proceedings of V International Kant-Congress. Bonn 1981).
• Kant about Moral of an Atheist (Proceedings of VII Kant-Congress. Mainz 1991).
• Imaginativeness in J. Shad's Philosophy ("Kultur und Asthetic". Weimar 1987).
• Sebastian Frank's Philosophical Views ("Dialectic and Logic". Tbilisi 1987).
• M. Heidegger and His Ways (M. Heidegger-Feldweg. Georgiash-Deutch. Tbilisi 1988).
• On the Structure of Worldview (Politik, Religion, Wurde des Menschen". Giessen 1993).
• Johane Petrizi and Nicholas of Methone ("Religion". Tbilisi, 1992,3)
• Knowledge and Faith in Philosophy ("Religion". Tbilisi 1992, 10).
• Sh.Nuzubidze and Renaissance in Osten (Proceedings of Tbilisi State University, 1995).
• Nikephores Blemides and Renaissance in Byzantium("Religion", Tbilisi. 1993,5).
• Ancient Philosophy. Tbilisi 1995.                                                                                    

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