Marc de Munnynck

Marc de Munnynck OP (2 December 1871 – 21 April 1945) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian

Biography

Marc de Munnynck was born in Ghent, the son of Albert-Auguste de Munnynck and Emilie (née Allaërt). He entered the Dominican Order in 1887 and was ordained priest in 1894. Father Munnynck studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Louvain (1891–1896). He was sequentially lecturer in theology (1895), teacher of philosophy (1895–1905), later of dogmatics in his order in Belgium.

Made professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg (1905–1945), Munnynck served as rector (1924–1925) and vice-rector (1925–1926) in this university. Munnynck was a Thomist and advocated a close linking of the disciplines. He had a preference for fields of knowledge in which philosophical and scientific questions linked each other.

He died in Fribourg.

Works

• "La Conservation de l'Énergie et la Liberté Morale," Revue Thomiste (1897)
• "Les Propriétés Essentielles des Corps Bruts, Contribution à l'Étude de l'Hylémorphisme," Revue Thomiste (mai 1900)
• "La Sociologie Positive," Revue de Philosophie (1er avril 1902)
• "L'Individualité des Animaux Supérieurs," Revue Thomiste (janvier 1902)
• "La Psychologie du Spécialiste," Revue des Questions Scientifiques (juillet 1911)
• Les Surprises de l'Imagination (1923)
• Le Rêve (1924)
• L'Art Religieux (1927)
• "L'Idée de Lêtre," Revue Néo-scolastique de Philosophie (1929)
• "La Notion du Temps," Philosophia Perennis (1930)
• La Métaphysique de la Personnalité (1942)

External links

• Works by Marc de Munnynck at Gallica