Friedrich Lipsius

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Friedrich Reinhard Lipsius (born October 3, 1873 in Jena , † August 29, 1934 in Leipzig ) was a German professor of philosophy who became a member of the NSDAP before the Nazi " seizure of power " .

Life

Lipsius was the son of the theologian Richard Adelbert Lipsius . He completed his studies of theology and philosophy in Leipzig and Jena in 1897 with a licentiate degree (Lic.theol.). After a year as an assistant preacher in Weimar , he became a private lecturer in systematic theology in Jena in 1898 . His habilitation for systematic theology took place in 1899 with the topic "The preliminary questions of systematic theology with special consideration of Wilhelm Wundt's philosophy examined critically". The strong interest in philosophical questions and the distance to questions of faith can be seen in the work “Critique of Theological Knowledge” from 1904. Afterwards Lipsius studied philosophy again and heard a. a. in Jena with Ernst Haeckel . For economic reasons he accepted a pastor's position in St. Martini in Bremen in 1906 , but as a liberal pastor inclined to monism he came into conflict with orthodox views. He resigned from his position in 1907 and received his doctorate with Erich Adickes with his "Critique". He submitted his philosophical habilitation thesis “The Unity of Being as a Problem of Philosophy” to Wundt and Johannes Volkelt in Leipzig in 1912. His trial lecture was “ Irrationalism in Science and Philosophy of the Present”. Lipsius took a critical stance towards positivism . He became a non-civil servant in 1919. Appointed professor. His inaugural lecture was on "The Tasks of the Philosophy of Religion ". From 1920 he worked at the philosophical institute of Theodor Litt as a planned senior assistant. Lipsius was a member of the scientific management of the Schopenhauer Society . In the 1920s he took part negatively in the discussion about the theory of relativity . The relativism of the theory of relativity would contradict the unity of experience. Space and time would be different sizes, because time is irreversible. This does not apply to the room. Lipsius was a member of the DVP between 1920 and 1926 . On January 1, 1932, he became a member of the NSDAP (Member No. 905.753), but resigned "temporarily" because he feared disadvantages in his professional activity. In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state .

Fonts

  • The preliminary questions of systematic theology: with special regard to Wilhelm Wundt's philosophy . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1899
  • Critique of Theological Knowledge . Schwetschke 1904
  • The religion of monism . Concordia, Berlin 1907
  • Unity of knowledge and unity of being . Kröner, Stuttgart 1913
  • Natural philosophy and worldview , Kröner, Stuttgart 1918
  • Johannes Volkelt as a religious philosopher . Beck, Munich 1918
  • Natural philosophy. Philosophy of the Inorganic . Shepherd, Breslau 1923
  • Truth and Error in Relativity . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1927

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information mainly based on: Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich, Academy, Berlin 2002, 74.
  2. ^ Friedrich Lipsius: The logical foundations of the special theory of relativity, Annalen der Philosophie 1920, 439-446; For the criticism see: Hans Reichenbach : The philosophical meaning of the theory of relativity, Teubner 1979, 326.
personal data
SURNAME Lipsius, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lipsius, Friedrich Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1934
Place of death Leipzig