Wilhelm Schuppe

Wilhelm Scale ( born May 5, 1836 in Brieg (Silesia ), † March 29, 1913 in Breslau) was a German philosopher. He is considered the founder of the philosophy of immanence.

Life

Scale studied from 1854 to 1857 in Breslau, Bonn and Berlin initially Jura, later Catholic theology and classical philology thereon. Finally he completed his PhD in 1860 in Berlin as a doctor of philosophy and jurisprudence with De anacoluthis Ciceronianis maxime in libris de Officiis scriptis et Tusculanis disputationibus, a monograph on Ciceronian rhetoric. After his education he worked from 1861 as a high school teacher in Berlin, Breslau, Neisse, Gliwice and Bytom. On March 30, 1869, he married Adelheid, née Dierschke.

Because of his 1870 published book Human thought he was finally promoted by Hermann Lotze, which in turn was a professor of philosophy and introduced the concept of value in the philosophical discussion.

This was followed in 1873 the professorship at the University of Greifswald as professor of philosophy. In 1884 he was rector of the university. He was also a member of the Society of Sciences in Christiania. Three years after scale in 1910 emeritus, he passed away.

Scale is considered the founder of the philosophy of immanence, which he developed in the context of the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.