Edmund von Pfleiderer

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Edmund Pfleiderer , from 1898 from Pfleiderer , (born October 12, 1842 in Stetten im Remstal, today in Kernen im Remstal ; † April 3, 1902 in Tübingen ) was professor of philosophy .

Life

Pfleiderer studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and was field preacher in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. From 1873 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Kiel , from 1877 at the University of Tübingen. For the academic year 1897/98 he was elected rector of the University of Tübingen. In his works he mainly dealt with questions of epistemology , ethics as well as history and the philosophy of history .

He was at times an active member of the National Liberal Party , whose Württemberg organization was the German Party .

Around 1864, as vicar in Eningen, he met the women's rights activist Helene Lange , who at the time was spending a year with the parish family Max Eifert . She mentions him as the only man who seriously involved the partially educated women who lived and visited in the rectory in his philosophical conversations.

In 1898 Edmund Pfleiderer was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal title of nobility.

family

Edmund von Pfleiderer was a brother of the theologian Otto Pfleiderer and the manufacturer Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer . Edmund's daughter Thekla was married to the zoologist Richard Hesse and was the mother of the chemist Gerhard Hesse (1908–1997).

Works

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as a patriot, statesman and educational institution , 1870 (Reprint 1987, ISBN 3-511-09203-5 ).
  • Empiricism and Skepticism in David Hume's Philosophy as the Final Decomposition of English Epistemology, Morals, and Religious Studies , 1874.
  • Cosmopolitanism and patriotism. (= German time and dispute issues. Pamphlets on the knowledge of the present. Issue 36, pp. 1-40.) Habel, Berlin 1874 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
  • Modern pessimism , 1875.
  • The Idea of ​​a Golden Age , 1877.
  • Kantian Criticism and English Philosophy , 1881.
  • Lotze's philosophical world view according to its main features , 2nd edition. 1884.
  • On the nature of the university and its role as a university , 1884.
  • The Philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus in the Light of the Mystery Idea , 1886.
  • To the solution of the Platonic question , 1888.
  • Experiences of a chaplain in the war of 1870/71 , 1890.
  • Socrates and Plato , 1896.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Edmund Pfleiderer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rector's speeches (HKM) .
  2. ↑ Helene Lange: Memoirs. Berlin: Herbig, 1925, chap. 8th.
  3. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1901, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Edmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfleiderer, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten, today Kernen in the Remstal
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1902
Place of death Tübingen