Alexander Pfänder

Alexander pledges ( born February 7, 1870 in Iserlohn, † March 18, 1941 in Munich) was a German philosopher and the realistic phenomenology is attributed. After his apprenticeship, the mental with the physical is connected by interactions.

Teaching

Alexander pledges was a student of Theodor Lipps in Munich, where he taught from 1901, from 1930 to 1935 as a full professor. His first work phenomenology of volition appeared in 1900.

Successor on his Munich chair was at the insistence of Adolf Hitler towards the National Socialist philosopher Hans Grunsky.

The theologian Wolfgang Trillhaas issued in 1948 Pfänder philosophy of life goals from the estate and contributed an afterword in which he paid tribute to Pfänder thinking.