Carl Nicolai Starcke

Carl Nicolai Starcke ( born March 29, 1858 in Copenhagen, † March 7, 1926 ibid ) was a Danish sociologist, politician, educator and philosopher. Starcke was a Freemason.

Life

Starcke his doctorate in 1883 with a thesis on Feuerbach. In 1916, he was against the resistance of Harald Høffding professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.

He was first a member of the liberal party Venstre. In 1905 he co-founded the social-liberal party Venstre Det radicals. He was also dissatisfied with this party and are therefore involved in the establishment of Danmarks Retsforbund, which partly belonged from 1913 to 1919 and 1919 to Venstre an independent party was. During this time he was also a deputy to the Folketing. From 1913 to 1916 he was chairman of the Henry George forums ingen.

Education

Starcke founded 1899, Det Danske Selskabs Skole in Frederiksberg, the first free school in Europe, where you could take the Abitur. This school existed until 1911.

" The primitive family in its origin and development "

Family sociology

Starcke known book is published 1888 The primitive family in its origin and development of the. In it, he examined the social structures of different populations in Africa, Australia and Asia, and compared them with each other.

Starcke wrote about this book:

" The purpose of my work is to recognize the primitive family and the ideas on which it is built, and the germs of moral growth, it contains prove. "

Comparative method

Starcke turned against the spekultative construction of the story and wants to replace it with the application of the comparative method. He opposes a misunderstanding of this method:

" Same legends and myths, same sociale institutions, customs and traditions, we can not be interpreted as a testimony to common origin, because such similarities may be due to causes that may come into existence in several places and at different times completely independent. "

With the comparative method can be according to Starcke not to a common origin, but probably close to the same conditions.

Source Criticism

He also addressed the quality of the source material and focuses on the question why authors come to different results for the same sources.

Starcke distinguished four categories of sources:

  • Direct historical accounts of the development of a single community during a certain period,
  • Travel stories,
  • Old written down laws and customs and
  • Ancient myths and legends as well as archaeological reports.

He refers to the problem to interpolate conclusions about times and for which no sources.

Works

  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Ludwig Feuerbach (PDF, 5.9 MB) Stuttgart: F. Enke 1885.
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: The primitive family in its origin and development (PDF, 20.3 MB) Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1888.
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Etikens teoretiske foundatio. 1889
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Skepticismen led som i en aandelige bevægelser siden reformations 1890
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Samvittighedslivet; s fremstilling af principerne for menneskeligt samfundsliv København: Brødrene Salmonsen first half of 1894 (PDF; 21.0 MB ), 2nd half of 1896-1897 proof in LCCN
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: La famille dans les sociétés différentes (PDF, 17.1 MB ) Paris: V. Giard & E. Brière 1899, existing in LCCN
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Freemasonry as an art form. Berlin: Franz miracle 1911.
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Personlighedens moral og de ​​moralske Problemer i nutiden, Copenhagen and Christiania: Sansoni 1912, existing in LCCN
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Freemasonry, its historical development and cultural significance among different peoples. Hamburg: Bath maker 1913 proof in the German National Library
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Verdenskrigen; hvorfor com the, hvortil the Forer. København, V. Prior, 1914, existing in Worldcat
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: psykologi, Kjøbenhavn above Kristiania: Sansoni in 1916, proof in the LCCN
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Typer af the filosofiske Tænknings History, Copenhagen 1918, existing in Worldcat
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: The sociale uro above the torrents of fred, Copenhagen and Christiania: Sansoni 1920, existing in LCCN
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Baruch de Spinoza. Copenhagen: Sansoni 1923 proof in the German National Library, Brief review in Annals of philosophy and philosophical criticism, 4 Bd, H. 1 / 2, Kant: Festschrift 1924, p 17, Springer online at JSTOR
  • Starcke, Carl Nicolai: Lovene for samfundsudviklingen og de ​​sociale ideal, Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1927, existing in Worldcat
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