Jakob Sigismund Beck

Jacob Sigismund Beck, also: Jakob Sigismund Beck ( born August 6 1761 Liessau at Marienburg; † August 29, 1840 in Rostock ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Jacob Sigismund Beck was the son of a pastor. On a high school prefigured, he entered the University of Königsberg, where he studied mathematics and philosophy. One of his teachers was Immanuel Kant, upon its recommendation Beck went to the University of Halle. At the same time he was hired at a local high school. At the University he made in 1791 a dissertation on Taylor's theorem. On the basis of this work he received his doctorate and habilitation for Master and Doctor of Philosophy. Since then he worked there as a lecturer.

On April 27, 1799, the University of Rostock, he was named a full professor of metaphysics. Its predecessor was Gustav Schadeloock. To the Chair competed Wilhelm Traugott Krug. In 1802 he was appointed as a philosophy teacher at the Berlin Military Academy, which he declined, however.

Beck married on February 4, 1803 in Rostock Conradine Marie Dorothea ( 1769-1840 ), the daughter of Mecklenburg Superintendent Johann Gottlieb Friederich ( 1738-22. March 1794 ) and his wife Margarethe Ilsabe Carmon ( 1751-1802 ). The marriage came a daughter, Louise, who married a pharmacist named Wismar Fabricius.

1809 Beck was also inspector of the ducal Konviktoriums. At the University he held four times, the Office of the Rector: 1808/1809, 1816/1817, 1817/1818 and 1821 / 1822. Three times he was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. To the Inspector General of scholarships he was appointed in 1835.

Until shortly before his death, Beck was professor, and was succeeded by Heinrich von Stein. He died in 1840 in Rostock at the age of 79 years. On September 2 of that year he was buried.

Work

In his time at the high school Beck wrote his major work called Explanatory excerpt from the Schriftten of Professor Kant, by the advice of the same. He published this work on the advice of Kant, whose followers he was. Later, he wrote textbooks on philosophy, but remained largely unnoticed. Until 1824 he published works, especially the philosophy of Kant included.

Beck read logic, mathematics, metaphysics, natural philosophy, practical philosophy, ethics and natural law. He was one of the most listened to professors in Rostock his time.

Beck was considered a modest man. He spent his last years withdrawn.

Works

• Dissertatio de Theoremate Tayloriano, sive de lege generali, secundum quam functionis mutantur, mutatis a quibus pendent varibilibus (Hall 1791)
• Explanatory summary of the critical writings of Prof. I. Kant, by the advice of the same ( two volumes, Riga 1793/1794, Volume 1 online)
• The only possible point of view from which the critical philosophy must be judged ( the third volume of Explanatory extract, two parts, Riga 1796)
• Outline of the critical philosophy (Hall 1796)
• Propaedeutic to any scientific Studio (Hall 1796; Online)
• Comment on I. Kant's Metaphysics of Morals. First part, which contains the metaphysical principles of natural law (Hall 1798; Online)
• Principles of Legislation ( two parts, Rostock / Leipzig 1806; Online)
• Program: determination of some of the logic nationals terms ( three departments, Rostock 1808/1809 )
• Program: From the shapes of the State Constitution ( three departments, Rostock 1816/1817 )
• Textbook of natural law ( Jena 1820; Online)
• Textbook of logic ( Rostock / Schwerin 1820; Online)
• Program: About the Internal Revenue (Rostock 1821)
• Program: From the metyphysischen doctrine of virtue (Rostock 1822)
• Program: Prolegomena to general metaphysics ( three departments, Rostock 1823/1824 )