Adolf Lasson

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Adolf Lasson (born March 12, 1832 in Strelitz as Ahron Lazarusson , † December 19, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Adolf Lasson came from a Jewish family. From 1848 to 1852 he studied philology and law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1853 he converted to Christianity. From 1859 he was a teacher at the Luisenstädtische Realschule in Berlin. In 1861 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig . From 1874 he was a lecturer in literature and aesthetics at the Viktoria Lyceum and from 1877 as a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Berlin. He was the father of the Protestant theologian Georg Lasson .

Adolf Lasson has translated the writings of Aristotle and Giordano Bruno into German , among others .

In his writings he advocates a further development of Hegelian doctrine influenced by the views of the historical school of law and by the newer scientific views .

Lasson was not a pacifist. In 1868, in his book Das Kulturideal und der Krieg , he formulated B .:

"[I] m peace [...] the illusion easily arises that the state is there for individuals, for their prosperity and comfort [...] The state in war demands all belongings of its citizens for its purposes, and he does demands even more: He demands the surrender of their entire existence [...] The state at peace is not a true state; it only reveals its full meaning in the war. "

- p. 16f.

“Peace may produce an industrious, lovable race; but the strength withers, the nerve slacks. "

- p. 17

Works

  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte in relation to church and state. Berlin 1863
  • The cultural ideal and the war. Berlin 1868
  • Principle and future of international law. Berlin 1871
  • Master Eckhart the Mystic. Berlin 1878
  • System of legal philosophy. Berlin 1881
  • The development of the religious consciousness of mankind according to E. v. Hartmann. 1883
  • Temporal and timeless. Leipzig 1890
  • Sint ut sunt. For the old grammar school against the innovators. Five theses. Walther & Apolant , Berlin 1890
  • The infinitely small in economic life. Lecture. Berlin 1891
  • Lottery and Economics. Berlin 1894
  • The memory. Berlin 1894
  • Commercial interests and real estate interests. Berlin 1896
  • The body. Berlin 1898
  • [As translator] Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics. Translated into German by Adolf Lasson. Jena 1909

literature

  • Friedbert Holz:  Lasson, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 678 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernhard Carl Engel: Adolf Lasson as a logician along with an Adolf Lasson bibliography , in: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Critique, 153, 1914 (also as a separate print Leipzig 1914)
  • A. Gasser: Prussian military spirit and the unleashing of war in 1914 (Basel / Frankfurt, 1985)

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personal data
SURNAME Lasson, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lazarussohn, Ahron (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Strelitz
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1917
Place of death Berlin