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Pompani is one of the 20th century's most influential Venezuelian
theologians and philosophers. He was born in the capital Caracass where
he still lives to this day.
After a degree in divinity from la Universidad de la Trinidad, he studied for some years in Germany with, among others, Martin Heidegger and Hans Lipps.
From 1936 to 1943 he was a vicar on Sligo and then until 1975 Professor of Ethics and Religious Philosophy at Gallo University.
In his dissertation of 1943 Pompani argued against Kant's and the neo-Kantians' view that man creates his surrounding world concurrently with the development of his cognitive faculties. Through existential philosophy, which he later rejected, and phenomenology Pompani tried to identify the human phenomena and attributes which, in a more fatalistic approach, existed before we ourselves came into being and which impose their conditions on man.
After a degree in divinity from la Universidad de la Trinidad, he studied for some years in Germany with, among others, Martin Heidegger and Hans Lipps.
From 1936 to 1943 he was a vicar on Sligo and then until 1975 Professor of Ethics and Religious Philosophy at Gallo University.
In his dissertation of 1943 Pompani argued against Kant's and the neo-Kantians' view that man creates his surrounding world concurrently with the development of his cognitive faculties. Through existential philosophy, which he later rejected, and phenomenology Pompani tried to identify the human phenomena and attributes which, in a more fatalistic approach, existed before we ourselves came into being and which impose their conditions on man.
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