Georg von Gizycki

Georg von Gizycki (born April 14, 1851 in Glogau ( province of Silesia ), † March 3, 1895 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Gizycki received his doctorate on May 29, 1875 under Eduard Zeller at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with an attempt on the philosophical consequences of the Goethe-Lamarck-Darwin theory of evolution and completed his habilitation with a thesis on Shaftesbury’s philosophy . In 1878 he became a private lecturer and in 1883 an associate professor of philosophy in Berlin. Gizycki was a representative of the ethical movement in Germany; He helped found the German Society for Ethical Culture and edited the journal Ethical Culture . In addition, he served both as a writer and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Ethics .

Gizycki, sitting in a wheelchair , married Lily von Kretschmann (1865–1916) in 1893 , who after his death married Heinrich Braun , who later became a member of the Reichstag .

Philosophical Consequences of the Lamarck-Darwinian Development Theory. One try. Winter, Leipzig 1876.
Shaftesbury's philosophy. Winter, Leipzig 1876.
Basic moral principles. Friedrich, Leipzig 1883.
Moral philosophy presented in a commonly understandable way. Friedrich, Leipzig 1888.
Kant and Schopenhauer. Two essays. Friedrich, Leipzig 1888.
Lectures on social ethics. Edited from his estate by Lily von Giżycki. Dümmler, Berlin 1895.

Rudolf Eisler: Philosopher Lexicon: Life, Works and Teachings of the Thinkers. - Berlin: Mittler, 1912
Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach : Georg von Gizycki, the founder of the society for "ethical culture" in Germany. An ethical-pedagogical study. Diss. Leipzig 1924
Volker Gerhardt, Reinhard Mehring, Jana Räter: Berliner Geist: a history of the Berlin university philosophy until 1946. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-002961-7 ( online ).
Friedrich Jodl: Georg Von Gizycki and the Science of Ethics . In: International Journal of Ethics , Vol. 5, No. 4 (July 1895), ISSN 1526-422X , pp. 500-506 ( JSTOR 2375553 ).