Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl.
Philosophy
Husserl assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. Approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this movement. Fink called the philosophical problems pre-questions, that will lead to the true philosophy by the way of a ontological practice.
Works
Vom Wesen des Enthusiasmus, Freiburg 1947
Nachdenkliches zur ontologischen Frühgeschichte von Raum - Zeit -Bewegung, Den Haag 1957
Alles und Nichts, Den Haag 1959
Spiel als Weltsymbol, Stuttgart 1960
Nietzsches Philosophie, Stuttgart 1960
Metaphysik und Tod, Stuttgart 1969
Heraklit. Seminar mit Martin Heidegger, Frankfurt/Main 1970
Erziehungswissenschaft und Lebenslehre, Freiburg 1970
Sein und Mensch. Vom Wesen der ontologischen Erfahrung, Freiburg 1977
Grundfragen der systematischen Pädagogik, Freiburg 1978
Grundphänomene des menschlichen Daseins, Freiburg 1979
Grundfragen der antiken Philosophie, Würzburg 1985
