Felix Adler (professor)

Felix Adler ( born August 13, 1851 in Alzey, † April 24, 1933 in New York) was an American philosopher German - Jewish origin. He was professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

He was born the son of Rabbi Alzeyer Dr. Samuel Adler, who emigrated in 1857 to America with him. Felix Adler was educated at Columbia University, returned to Germany and received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. In 1874 he went back to the USA where he worked for two years as a professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell University.

In 1876, Adler in New York, entering for a secular humanism " Society for Ethical Culture ," whose moral and spiritual leader he remained until his death. Adler found supporters for his ideas first in many states of the USA, but soon also in some European countries. An important representative of these views in the German language was the acting of Ludwig Feuerbach in connection Viennese philosophy professor Friedrich Jodl as (co - ) founder and Chairman of the " German Society for Ethical Culture." The efforts of these companies is referred to as an ethical movement.

From 1902 to 1918 Adler was a professor of "Political and Social Ethics" at Columbia University. He was also founder of The Ethical Record ( 1888) and The International Journal of Ethics (1890), called 1900 the New York Philosophy Club to life and was from 1928 until his death president of the American Philosophical Association.

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