Johannes Volkelt

John Volkelt ( born July 21, 1848 in the village of Kunz ( Lipnik ) in Bielsko- Biala (Galicia ), † 8 May 1930 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher.

Life

He studied in Vienna, Jena and Leipzig. His doctoral thesis submitted in 1876 in Jena, where he became professor in 1879. From 1883 to 1889 he worked in Basel and from 1889 in Würzburg. From 1894 to 1921 he taught in Leipzig.

Teaching

John Volkelt was in his teaching influenced by Hegel, Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Kant and Hume. He wanted to set up a critical metaphysics and therefore combine metaphysics with a skeptical and critical approach. He conducted numerous psychological arguments into his theory.

As the founder of the theory of knowledge in the modern sense of the word Kant is usually called. Against this view can be argued that the history of philosophy before Kant numerous investigations which are to be regarded as more than mere germs of such a science. So Volkelt noticed in his seminal work on the theory of knowledge that already the critical treatment of this science took its beginning with Locke. But at even earlier philosophers, already in the philosophy of the Greeks, there are discussions that tend to be currently employed in the theory of knowledge. Meanwhile, by Kant all been stirred up here under consideration problems in their depths, and following on him numerous thinkers have the same working through all sides so that one recovers the previously occurring attempted solutions either in Kant himself or his epigones.

Volkelt an epistemological difference from a psychological priori. For epistemological a priori, he writes:

" Beneath that is to understand the indubitable fact that the peculiar functions of thought are not given by experience; So that thinking takes services to which it is not entitled to the experience as such, of which there never would be able under sheer basis of experience. [Experience and thinking. 1886, 494 ] "

For a priori psychological states: It is crucial that a " phenomenon is determinative of another, decisive ." [ Volkelt, John: Experience and thinking. 1886, 89] causality is the " unalterable regularity in the conjunction of two factors or factor complexes ".

Volkelt has addressed in several works with the aesthetics.

Works

  • Pantheism and individualism. 1871
  • The unconscious and the pessimism. 1872
  • The dream fantasy. 1875
  • The concept of symbol in the latest aesthetic. In 1876.
  • Immanuel Kant's epistemology analyzed according to their basic principles. Leipzig 1879
  • About the possibility of metaphysics. 1884
  • Experience and thought. Critical foundation of the theory of knowledge. Hamburg and Leipzig 1886
  • Franz Grillparzer, a poet of the tragic. 1888
  • Lectures on Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy. 1892
  • Psychological issues. In 1893.
  • Aesthetic time issues. 1894
  • Aesthetics of the tragic. 1897 21906
  • On the psychology of aesthetic inspiration, 1899
  • Arthur Schopenhauer. His personality, his teaching, his faith. 1900
  • The Art of Individualisierens in d seal of Jean Paul, Haym Festschrift, 1902
  • The entwicklungsgeschichtl. Approach in d aesthetics, 1902
  • System of aesthetics, 3 volumes: I 1905 II 1910 III 1912
  • The sources of human certainty. 1906
  • Between poetry and philosophy, collected essays. 1908
  • Certainty and truth, Munich 1918
  • Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Time 1928
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