Kenneth L. Schmitz

Kenneth L. Schmitz (1922–2017) was a Canadian philosopher. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America (1980).[1][2]

Kenneth L. Schmitz
Born	September 16, 1922 Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died	August 25, 2017 Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Education	B.A. St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, M.A. University of Toronto, Pontifical Licentiate at the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, Ph.D. University of Toronto.
Spouse(s)	Lillian Oriel Patterson (May 11, 1921 - October 22, 1998)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Loyola Marymount University, Marquette University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Toronto, Catholic University of America
Doctoral advisor	Etienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain
Main interests	Continental Philosophy, Metaphysics, Phenomenology (philosophy).
Notable ideas	Personhood, Being, History Creation as Gift.
Influences Fr. Henry Carr, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Kant, Gabriel Marcel, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Etienne Gilson.

References

1. "In Memoriam: Kenneth L. Schmitz | Articles | Communio". Communio.
2. Dougherty, Jude P. (1 December 2017). "Kenneth Schmitz (1922-2017)". The Review of Metaphysics. 71 (2): 437. ISSN 0034-6632.