Erich Adickes

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Erich Adickes (born June 29, 1866 in Lesum ; † July 8, 1928 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher .

ancestors

Erich Adickes was born as the son of the pietistic magistrate Wilhelm Adickes (1817-1896) (judge at the local court Lesum 1854-1894) from the Frisian country Wursten (near Cuxhaven) and Therese Chappuzeau (1822-1898) from a Huguenot family. Both grandfathers also held public offices, Erich Friedrich Adickes (1778–1838) was a member of the state assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1819–1838 , Christoph Wilhelm Chappuzeau was a bailiff in Bederkesa . The mother was a descendant of the French traveler and writer Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701), who came to Lower Saxony (Celle) in 1682.

His brother was the local politician and long-time mayor Franz Adickes (1846-1915).

Life

Adickes attended the Christianeum in Altona until 1884 . Then he studied philosophy, further history, geography and possibly theology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and with Friedrich Paulsen at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin . With his work Kant's systematics as a contributing factor in the development of the system , he received his doctorate in 1887 . After completing his studies, he accepted teaching positions in Barmen and Kiel . In 1895 he completed his habilitation at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in philosophy.

In 1898 he received a call as associate professor. In 1902 he accepted a position at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1904 he succeeded Christoph von Sigwart in Tübingen . An important work he did was the processing of the handwritten estate of Immanuel Kant , which he carried out on the advice of Wilhelm Dilthey . He published it as the 14th to 19th volume of the Kant edition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

As a critical idealist, Adickes created a theory of knowledge and developed a eudaimonistic ethic. Eventually he arrived at a spiritualistic worldview with pantheistic features. He was considered a staunch opponent of Hans Vaihinger .

He turned against materialism and against the “monistic natural philosophy” of the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel and claimed that matter did not exist objectively, that it was a “matter of our mind”, a “state of consciousness”. The atoms are only auxiliary concepts of the mind. He negated the possibility of scientific knowledge of the objective world.

Adickes had been a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia since 1884 .

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Fonts (selection)

  • German Kantian Bibliography . In: Philosophical Review, May 1893 - June 1896, 3 vols. Boston 1895/96
  • Kant versus Haeckel. Epistemology versus scientific dogmatism , Berlin 1901
  • Anti-caps. A forced reply , Berlin 1904
  • Character and worldview . Academic inaugural speech of January 12th as o. Ö. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. JCB Mohn (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1905
  • Investigations into Kant's physical geography , 1911
  • Kant's Views on History and the Structure of the Earth , 1911
  • A newly found college notebook after Kant's lecture on physical geography , Tübingen 1913
  • Kant's opus posthumously presented and assessed - Berlin: Reuther & Reichard, 1920. (Kant studies. Supplementary booklets; No. 50) - 855 pages
  • AE [self-portrayal], In: Raymund Schmidt (ed.): The philosophy of the present in self-portrayals , 2 vols. Leipzig 1923
  • Kant and the thing in itself , 1924
  • Kant as a natural scientist , 2 volumes, 1924/1925
  • Kant and the as-if philosophy , 1927
  • Kant's theory of the double affection of our ego as the key to his epistemology , 1929

literature

Web links

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Schmidt, Raymund (Hg): The philosophy of the present in self-portrayals, Vol. II, 1–30, 2nd edition (Leipzig 1923)

Werner Stark: Research on letters and manuscripts by Immanuel Kant, Berlin 1993, passim [On the history of the Kant edition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: with a detailed description of Adicke's work on the estate department; 1896ff.].

Schirren, Carl; Schirren, Carl (ed.); Lenz, Wilhelm (Hg :) Lectures on Livonian history. Postscript by Johannes Lossius. With an appendix: Carl Schirren's correspondence with the philosopher Erich Adickes 1902/03 on history, theology and the Germans [285 pages] (Lüneburg 2013) [series of publications Baltic Seminars, vol. 20-1]

  1. ↑ GenWiki : Article "Franz Adickes"
  2. ↑ Descendants of Samuel Chappuzeau (1625-1701) on the family's private website.
  3. ↑ Kratsch, Werner (ed.): The connection system in Tübingen, Tübingen 1977, p. 69.
  4. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Adickes, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Lesum (today Bremen)
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1928
Place of death Tübingen