Richard Avenarius

Richard Avenarius ( born November 19, 1843 in Paris, † August 18 1896 in Zurich ), actually Richard Habermann, a German philosopher was. He described his teaching as Empiriocriticism.

Life

The son of the bookseller and publisher Edward Habermann studied from 1865 to 1868 philosophy, philology and psychology at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig and Berlin. In Leipzig in 1868 he was a PhD and habilitation in 1876. In 1877 he accepted an appointment as professor of philosophy at the University of Zurich.

Thinking

At the core of his philosophy he wants to eliminate everything that is not pure experience, which means that everything that does not match the message content ( E value ), by the environment itself is limited, it therefore no difference between inner and outer experience of an individual there. He bases his statements so that the vorfindende individual in the system C (= cerebrum ) is represented. After that philosophy is " the scientific striving become ... the totality of thinking in terms of the given experience with the least expenditure of energy ." Avenarius has analyzed the importance of the economy principle for the spiritual life and awareness.

Effect and reception

Many thinkers and poets are influenced by Avenarius, so among other Friedrich Carstanjen, Joseph Petzoldt, Richard Wahle, Rudolf Willy, Carl Hauptmann, Rudolf Wlassak, Alf Nyman, Franz Blei, Ernst Mach, Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov, Ber Borochov and Heinrich Gomperzes. In addition, he exerted a significant influence on Edmund Husserl, as well as Theodor pulling. Similarly, Erwin Schrödinger employed extensively during his war service with the work of Avenarius. Richard Avenarius inspired the character of Professor Avenarius in the novel Immortality by Milan Kundera.

Works

  • Over the first two phases of the Spinozischen pantheism and the ratio of the second to the third phase ( PDF; 3.1 MB). Eduard Avenarius, Leipzig 1868.
  • Philosophy as thinking of the world in accordance with the principle of Least Action. Prolegomena to a Critique of Pure Experience (PDF, 2.9 MB). Fues, Leipzig 1876; 2nd edition 1903.
  • Critique of Pure Experience (PDF, 4.8 MB). 2 vols. Fues, Leipzig 1888/1890; 2nd edition 1907/1908.
  • The Human Concept of the World (PDF, 8.2 MB). Rice land, Leipzig 1891; 2nd edition 1905; 3rd edition 1912.
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