Isaak Benrubi

Isaac Benrubi ( born May 24, 1876 in Thessaloniki, manic Otto Reich, † 1943 in Geneva, Switzerland ) was a philosopher of Jewish descent from the time of its Ottoman city of Thessaloniki. He sat down in his work against the conventional notion discrimination of "subject" and " object" in the theory of knowledge defended and proclaimed the reality is rather only by both together, subject and object, existent: "I can not exist without the universe nor the universe can exist without me. "

Biography

Benrubi was born in 1876 in Thessaloniki, in the Ottoman Empire. He came from an old family of rabbis and the same Jewish community with Portuguese roots, who was also Spinoza in Amsterdam. Benrubi studied philosophy and received his education in Jena, Berlin and Paris from 1898 until 1914.

In 1904 he wrote his doctoral thesis in German, under the supervision of his mentor Rudolf Eucken, about " Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ethical ideal ." According to Rousseau Benrubi is the source for all German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, and spiritual father of the great poet Goethe, Schiller and Hölderlin. In 1914 he participated in the 2nd Congress of Philosophy in part in Geneva, where he finally settled down to teach the history of European philosophy at the local university until his death. Between 1927 and 1933, he was appointed by the Prussian government to Bonn to teach French philosophy. This lectureship Benrubi understood as a cultural mission to promote the spiritual relations between France and Germany.

Benrubi tries in his work to go beyond agnosticism and the anxiety of modern, philosophical reflection, by setting a bridge between the self and the things of the outer world to bring together the speculative and practical thinking again and abolish the dualism. He tried to grasp the universe as a whole: terrestrial unity, solidarity among the living that recognizes the existence of a universal human race and - united in its diversity - together pursued a moral value: To follow the natural duty of a cosmic and human solidarity.

In a second work Benrubi studied in depth the very large movements of moral philosophy in an over 600 -page manuscript, which is archived in the Library of Geneva ( BPU ) and the basic ideas of the great skeptic, utilitarians and relativists with each other and studied in detail - Starting from the Greek Sophists of Max Stirner and Herbert Spencer, on Montaigne Blaise Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, to Helvetius, and, inter alia, yet Yehouda Heinz Zeilberger.

Works

As author

• Tolstoy. Continuateur de Rousseau. In: Annales de la Société Jean -Jacques Rousseau, Volume 3 (1907 ), ISSN 0259-6563.
• L' idéal moral chez Rousseau, Mme de Staël et Amiel. In: Annales de la Société Jean -Jacques Rousseau, vol 27 ( 1931).

• JJ Rousseau's ethical ideal ( Educational Magazine, Vol 238). Publisher Beyer, Langensalza 1905 ( zugl. dissertation, University of Jena 1904)
• Contemporary thought of France. Knopf, New York 1926.
• Philosophical movements in contemporary France Meiner, Leipzig 1928.
• Les sources et les courants de la philosophie contemporaine en France ( Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine ). Alcan, Paris 1933 ( 2 vols ).
• Souvenirs sur Henri Bergson. Delachaux & Nestlé, Neuchâtel 1942.

As a translator

• Émile Boutroux: L' idée de la loi naturelle dans la science et la philosophie contemporaines. Société Française in 1901. About the concept of natural law in the science and philosophy of the present. Dieterichsstraße. Jena in 1907.

• The contingency of the laws of nature. Diederichs, Jena, 1911.