Emil Lask

Emil Lask ( born September 25, 1875 in Wadowice, Galicia, † May 26 1915 in Turza - Mała, Galicia ) was a German philosopher of the Southwest German school of neo-Kantianism.

Life

Emil Lask was born as the first of four children of a Jewish paper manufacturer and a teacher in the Galician Wadowice. The parents came from the Province of Posen, had grown up in Northern Germany, and had the Prussian nationality. The birthplace belonged until 1918 to the Duchy of Zator under Habsburg rule Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

His sister was the poet and communist theater writer Berta Lask ( 1878-1967 ). 1885 the family moved Lask to Falkenberg in the Mark Brandenburg. In neighboring bathroom Freiwalde Emil Lask visited the municipal grammar school, which he completed in Easter 1894 with the matriculation examination.

For the summer semester 1894, Lask i.Br. first wrote to the University of Freiburg in the law school, but soon changed to philosophy. In the first semester, he learned to then become crucial for his scientific career influence by the philosopher Heinrich Rickert. Besides Rickert Lask heard in Freiburg, inter alia philosophy of Alois Riehl and economics of Max Weber and Gerhart von Schulze- Gaevernitz. After he had sufficient as a one-year volunteer his military service ( October 1895-October 1896 ), Lask moved to continue his studies in the winter semester 1896/97 at the University of Strasbourg. Here Wilhelm diaper band became his second formative academic teacher. From 1898 to 1901 Lask studied again in Freiburg. In 1901, he was at Rickert with a dissertation on Fichte's idealism and history (published 1902) PhD. Then Lask lived alternately in Berlin and his hometown of Falkenberg (Mark). During this period (1901-1905) not only his employment with the methods of positive jurisprudence, as well as constitutional and legal philosophical problems, but also the personal contact with Georg Simmel falls.

1905 Habilitation at Lask diaper band in Heidelberg with Scripture Philosophy of Law. In his inaugural lecture as Hegel in his relation to the world view of the Enlightenment (1905 ), he took a decidedly progressive Hegel - interpretation. After his habilitation Lask taught philosophy at Heidelberg University, first as a lecturer, in February 1910 as an associate professor and finally, from April 1913, in addition to diaper tape on which his retirement in Kuno Fischer (1906 ) second chair of philosophy as -budgetary associate professor.

In his Heidelberg years (1905-1915) Lask belonged to the inner circle around Max and Marianne Weber, whom he was on friendly terms since his time in Freiburg. Friendships used Lask further comprising the married couples Lina and Gustav Radbruch and Sophie and Heinrich Rickert, the philosopher Paul Hensel and Georg Lukács, the Swiss pianist Mina Tobler, later social politician Marienbaum and Frieda Gross, the wife of the psychoanalyst and anarchist Otto Gross.

In Heidelberg, his two main works were The logic of philosophy and the theory of categories (1911) and The Doctrine of Judgment (1912).

Lask was a soldier in the German army in World War I in the Galician - Turza Mała.

The estate Lask is preserved in the University Library.

Position

Starting from Rickert's philosophy of value received Lask thinking important suggestions from the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Lask developed its own philosophical position, which was directed against the view taken by Rickert primacy of the ethical in the logic. He started the foundation of his own philosophical system with a theory of categories in his major work ( The logic of philosophy and the theory of categories. A study of the dominion of the logical form, 1911 ) and a theory of judgment ( The doctrine of judgment, 1912). A part of Lask philosophical records can be found in the extensive estate of the band Collected Writings (1923 /24).

Lask is regarded as an original philosopher of the first decades of the 20th century. Thomas Rentsch wrote: As far as we already can see it today, the system elements are a " logical mysticism " that connects L. with the uncovering of a logical archetype and its epistemological foundation in his " doctrine of judgment " in modern philosophy similar only in to find Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus logico-Philosophicus ( 1921).

One aspect of the originality is Lask recognition of Plotinus and Neo-Platonism. As a philosopher, he influenced his friend Georg Lukács and - as with the radical critique of the history of philosophy - the young Heidegger. Also at Rickert in Freiburg studied Heidegger, Husserl before he joined. Even the German legal philosopher Gustav Radbruch invoked with respect to the foundations of his philosophy of law expressly Emil Lask.

Eugen Herrigel, Lask student and editor of the Collected Works, made known his teacher in Japan.

Publications

• Fichte's idealism and history. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), Tübingen and Leipzig 1902. Internet Archive. Anastatic reprint: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), Tübingen 1914 Internet Archive
• Philosophy of Right. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1905 separate casting from: . Philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century. Festschrift for Kuno Fischer. Second band. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1905 Internet Archive
• The logic of philosophy and the theory of categories. A study of the dominion of the logical form. J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), Tübingen 1911.
• The doctrine of judgment. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), Tübingen 1912. Internet Archive
• Collected Writings. 3 volumes. Edited by Eugen Herrigel. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), Tübingen 1923 ( Volume I, II ), 1924 (Band III)
• Complete Works. 2 vols. Scheglmann, Jena 2002 ( Volume I ), 2003 (Band II)