Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler ( born August 17, 1780 in Beromunster; † March 6, 1866 in Aarau ) was a Swiss physician, politician and philosopher.
Life
Troxler, whose father was a tailor and textile merchant, studied philosophy and medicine at Jena and Göttingen, among others, Hegel and Schelling. In Göttingen, he also gained his PhD.
As a physician, he practiced first in Vienna, where he was a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven, and from 1805 in Lucerne. Troxler practiced strongly criticized the Swiss medical policy. In 1806 he married Wilhelmine Polborn from Potsdam. After several trips Troxler lived since 1811 back in Beromunster. The font looks into the nature of man, with which also Goethe studied, he broke with Schelling's natural philosophy and turned to anthropology. In 1804, he discovered later named after him Troxler effect, a phenomenon of visual perception.
1815 was Troxler Emissary of Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna. In 1820 he became professor of philosophy and history at the Lyceum in Lucerne, but had to give the place due to political pressure after just one year. So he founded in Aarau an education institute and practiced as a physician continues.
1830 went Troxler professor at the University of Basel, but was discontinued in 1831 because he was suspected of participation in the rebellion of Basel-Land. In 1832 he became a member of the Great Council of the Canton of Aargau, in 1834 professor at the University of Bern, where he taught until 1850.
His last years were spent Troxler on his estate in Aarau, where he died in 1866 at the age of 85 years.
Services
Politically Troxler stood for a spiritual renewal of the Confederation and constitutional reform and was one of the most zealous advocates of the Swiss towards unity and a leading figure of the radical - liberal movement in the regeneration time. With a treatise on the North American constitutional model Troxler became an important conceptual precursor of the Swiss federal state in 1848.
As a philosopher, he initially followed by Schelling, 1834, then Jacobi. Gradually he hit a mystical direction, in the " idea " and " mind " played an important role. Troxler saw philosophy as " objectified anthropology '- he called it based on his concept biosophy as anthroposophy, which he regarded as knowledge of human nature - and anthropology as the basis of logic. A bridge between the Toxlerschern Anthroposophiebegriff and that of Rudolf Steiner set forth Friedrich Eymann, who struggled with the founding of his Troxler publisher also to the publication of the Troxlerschen work.
Troxler is one of the most important philosophers of Switzerland. The Swiss historian Eduard Fueter compared his role as a political philosopher of Switzerland with that of Hegel for Prussia.
Works
- Ideas on the basis of nosology and therapy, 1803 ( online)
- Elements of biosophy, 1806 (online)
- Looks into the nature of man, 1811 (online)
- Natural science of human cognition, 1828 (online)
- Logic, 3 vols, Stuttgart 1829
- The one true Confederation in contrast to the Central government and Kantonsthümelei, as well as the new hybrid league of both, together with a draft constitution, Rapperswil 1833 (online)
- Lectures on Philosophy, Bern 1835 (online)
- The Constitution of the United States of North America as a sample image of the Swiss Federal reform, Schaffhausen 1848 (online)
- Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler - a spiritual and political reformer of Switzerland. An Anthology. Introd u begl. v. Andreas Dollfus, Schaffhausen, 2005. ISBN 3-907260-25-2