Edmund Pfleiderer

Edmund Pfleiderer ( born October 12, 1842 in Stetten in the Rems valley, today nuclei in the Rems valley, † April 3, 1902 in Tübingen) was a professor of philosophy.

Life

Pfleiderer studied at the University of Tübingen Protestant theology and was chaplain in the German - Prussian War of 1870 /71. From 1873 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Kiel, from 1877 at the University of Tübingen. For the academic year 1897/98 he was elected Rector of the University of Tübingen. In his works he dealt mainly with questions of epistemology, ethics, history and philosophy of history.

He has at times been an active member of the National Liberal Party, whose Württemberg organization was the German party.

1898 Edmund Pfleiderer was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which was connected with the personal title of nobility.

Family

Edmund Pfleiderer was a brother of the theologian Otto Pfleiderer and the maker Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer. Edmunds daughter Thekla was married to the zoologist Richard Hesse and was the mother of the chemist Gerhard Hesse ( 1908-1997 ).

Works

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as a patriot, statesman, and educational institutions, 1870 ( reprint 1987, ISBN 3-511-09203-5 )
  • Empiricism and skepticism in Hume 's philosophy as the final decomposition of the English epistemology, ethics and religious studies, 1874
  • Cosmopolitanism and patriotism. ( = German time and dispute issues. Pamphlets Kentniss to the present. Issue 36, pp. 1-40. ) Habel, Berlin 1874 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • The modern pessimism, 1875
  • The idea of a golden age, 1877
  • Kant's critical philosophy and English philosophy, 1881
  • Lotze 's philosophical view of the world according to its basic features, 2nd edition 1884
  • The essence of the university and its mission as a university, 1884
  • The philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus, in the light of the mysteries idea, 1886
  • To solve the Platonic question, 1888
  • Experiences of a chaplain in the war 1870/71, 1890
  • Socrates and Plato, 1896
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