Isaak Benrubi

Isaak Benrubi

Isaak Benrubi (b. May 24, 1876, Thessaloniki - d. 1943, Geneva) was a philosopher of Greek-Jewish extraction, he opposed the conventional character of the act of knowing in "subject" and "object" to the reality that is interested in both subject and object: "I can't exist without the universe, neither can the universe exist without me"." He decided to attend the CIC’s meeting in Geneva only after learning that both Einstein and Bergson would also be attending.

Biography

Benrubi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1876. He came from an old family of rabbis, from the same Jewish community of Portuguese provenance, to which Spinoza belonged to in Amsterdam. He presented his thesis in German, under the direction of the great philosopher Eucken, on the "Moral ideal of J.J. Rousseau" (1904). According to Benrubi, Rousseau is the source of all German philosophy- from Kant to Nietzsche - and the spiritual father of the great poets Goethe, Schiller, and Holderlin. He studied philosophy and was educated in Jena, Berlin, and Paris (1898-1914). In 1914, he participated in the 2nd Congress of Philosophy in Geneva, where he stayed, teaching the history of European philosophy until his death. Between 1927 and 1933 he was appointed by the Prussian Government to teach French philosophy at Bonn, a job that he considered as a cultural mission for fostering the intellectual ties between France and Germany.

In his work Benrubi tries to go beyond the agnosticism and timidity of modern philosophical reflection, to re-establish the bridge between the Self and the things, to abolish the dualism of speculative and practical thinking. The author attempts to exhibit the universe as a whole: terrestrial unity, solidarity of the living, the existence of a human race, united in its diversity, arriving in conclusion at a moral: Natural obligation of cosmic and human solidarity. In a second work, Bendrubi studied at depth the great movements of moral philosophy in a manuscript of more than 600 pages, that is archived at the Geneva BPU (Bibliotheque Public et Universitaire, where the essential ideas of the sceptics, relativists and utilitarians are analyzed in detail and compared - from the Greek Sophists to Max Srirner and Herbert Spencer, passing through Montaigne, Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and Helvetius, among others. (J. H. Zeilberger)

Works

* "J. J. Rousseaus ethisches Ideal", 1904
* "Contemporary thought of France", 1926
* "Philosophische Strömungen der Gegenwart in Frankreich", 1928
* "Les sources et les courants de la philosophie contemporaine en France", 1933

References

* "S. H. Bergmann", entry in Encyclopedia Judaica, IV, Jerusalem, p. 546.
* "H. Reverdin", "Isaac Benrubi" in Annales de la Societe J.J. Rousseau, 1943.
* "J. H. Zeilberger", "Isaac Benrubi, Juif fidele, patriot genevois, cosmopolite fervent", manuscript deposited at the Bibliotheque Public et Universitaire de Geneve, 1981. (Cote BPU BVM 282).


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