Edmund King

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Edmund Wilhelm Hermann König , also Wilhelm Hermann Eduard König or Wilhelm Hermann Edmund König (born March 14, 1858 in West Greussia ; † January 15, 1939 in Sondershausen ) was a German educator . He taught at several schools in East, Central and West Germany. He also worked as a local politician and was a freelance philosopher.

Life

Origin, education and private life

From Easter 1869 until the end of September 1876, König attended the Sondershausen grammar school . He then enrolled at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , from which he moved to the University of Leipzig . He passed the examination for teachers at secondary schools in 1880 and in 1881 at the Faculty of Philosophy with his thesis advisor Wilhelm Wundt with the thesis About the concept of substance in Locke and Hume doctorate . König then completed his probationary year at the municipal grammar school for the holy cross in Dresden .

In Sondershausen a street is named after Edmund König. In addition, it was long assumed that he was an honorary citizen of the city. Corresponding documents could never be found. König, who had several sons and daughters - including Fritz, Hermann and Minna - is buried in a family grave in the main municipal cemetery. On November 6, 2013 a memorial stone was unveiled on the grave to commemorate the merits of his son Fritz (1899–1975) and his wife Margaretha, née. Möller, (1896–1973).

Professional career

From Easter 1882, König worked as a full teacher at the Dresden High School for the Holy Cross . He gave up this position in the summer of 1887 to devote himself exclusively to philosophical studies and literary work in Vienna . From 1888 he was a teacher and co-director at the Real- und Handelsschule in Bad Dürkheim until he was appointed to the Sondershausen grammar school in 1894.

In addition to his full-time work as a teacher and school director, Edmund König gained lasting fame , primarily due to his numerous philosophical writings. He was part of the neo-Kantian movement and was close to criticism . Triggered by two-sided articles published, he led a debate with Eduard von Hartmann on the question of transcendental idealism from 1889 . Within natural philosophy he was one of the opponents of Nietzsche's "temperament philosophy " and also judged negatively the view of purpose represented by , for example, Karl Ernst von Baer , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . Nevertheless he recognized in an essay in 1902:

"[ T ] he opposition of the neovitalists and anti-Darwinists that first came out shyly about ten years ago has already grown into a powerful movement that will very likely end with the victory of teleology ."

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The development of the causal problem in modern philosophy. Studies for orientation about the tasks of metaphysics and epistemology . Published by Otto Wigand , Leipzig.
  • Volume 1: The development of the causal problem from Cartesius to Kant . 1888.
  • Volume 2: The development of the causal problem in philosophy since Kant . 1890.
  • French philosophy in the 19th century . Published by J. Bacmeister, Eisenach 1889.
(Authorized German edition by: Félix Ravaisson : La philosophie française au XIX siècle . Imprimerie imperiale, Paris 1868.)
  • The problem of the connection between body and soul and its treatment in the Cartesian school. In: Program of the Sondershausen high school .
  • Part 1: 1895
  • Part 2: 1897
  • W. Wundt. His philosophy and psychology . (= Frommann's classics of philosophy. Volume 13) Verlag F. Frommann , Stuttgart 1901.
  • W. Wundt as a psychologist and as a philosopher. Frommann, Stuttgart 1902. (3rd edition 1909.)
  • Kant and science . (= The science - collection of scientific and mathematical monographs. 22nd volume). Publishing bookstore Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig, 1907.
  • Has Einstein refuted Kant? A contribution to the principles of science . Eupel, Sondershausen, 1929.

Essays

  • On the concept of substance in Locke and Hume . Dissertation. In: Philosophical Studies. Leipzig. Volume 1, № 2, 1881, pp. 261–335.
  • About the concept of objectivity in Wolff and Lambert with reference to Kant. In: Journal for Philosophy and Philosophical Critique. Halle (Saale), new series. Volume 85, 1884, pp. 292-313.
  • The Maine de Biran's concept of causation .
  • Maine de Biran - the French Kant. In: Philosophical monthly books. Volume 25, Issues 3–4, Heidelberg 1889.
  • On the ultimate questions of epistemology and the contrast between transcendental idealism and realism . 1894.
  • The distinction between pure and applied mathematics in Kant. In: Kant studies . Volume 3, № 1–3, January 1899, pp. 373–402.
  • The doctrine of psychophysical parallelism and its opponents. In: Journal for Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism. Vol. 115, № 2, 1900, pp. 161-192.
  • About natural purposes. In: Philosophical Studies. Leipzig, Volume 19, 1902, pp. 418-458 .

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary and obituary in Der Deutsche. Thüringer Tageblatt. No. 13 from Monday, January 16, 1939 .
  2. ^ Gudrun Kühne-Bertram, Hans-Ulrich Lessing (ed.): Wilhelm Dilthey . Correspondence. Volume 2: 1882-1895 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-30369-7 , p. 281.
  3. ↑ Chronological overview of all doctoral theses with Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig. Retrieved from psychologie.biphaps.uni-leipzig.de on May 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Memorial stone unveiled . On November 6, 2013 on kyffhaeuser-nachrichten.de . Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ Susanne Schedwill: Memorial for a special special houses. In: Thuringian General . November 6, 2013, accessed on sondershausen.thueringer-allgemeine.de on May 17, 2017.
  6. ^ Karl Vorländer : History of Philosophy. Second volume . Felix Meiner Verlag , Hamburg 1921, p. 445.
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf ( Ed. ): Ernst Troeltsch . Reviews and critiques (1894–1900) . Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019304-6 , p. 217.
  8. ^ About natural purposes, p. 418 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Edmund Wilhelm Hermann (full name); King, Wilhelm Hermann Eduard; König, Wilhelm Hermann Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, local politician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH West Greussia
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1939
Place of death Sondershausen