Johann Friedrich Flatt

Johann Friedrich Flatt

Johann Friedrich Flatt (born February 20, 1759 in Tübingen , Duchy of Württemberg ; † November 24, 1821 in Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a Protestant theologian and philosopher . He was a full professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. His younger brother Carl Christian von Flatt (1772–1843) was a well-known dogmatist .

Johann Friedrich Flatt studied philosophy , mathematics and theology in Tübingen. After his educational trip, he studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , which at that time was known as a scientific center for mathematics in Europe. There he also took his exams. In 1792 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1798 he became a full professor in the high theological faculty there.

Johann Friedrich Flatt was a student of Gottlob Christian Storr and, like his teacher, a representative of the so-called Older Tübingen School and of biblically based supranaturalism . He became known for his critical lectures on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - on the one hand as the first Tübingen professor to deal with Kant (a founder of supranaturalism) in his lectures - but above all for his founding and editing of the magazine for Christian dogmatics and morality of 1796 to 1803. His research focus was on Kantian philosophy, Christian moral theory and New Testament exegesis .

In the summer semester of 1786, Flatt held the first Tübingen lecture on (empirical) psychology on behalf of Gottfried Ploucquet , who was suffering from the consequences of a stroke . Flatt's psychological lectures were attended by Hegel, Schelling and Holderlin, among others, and had a great influence on their thinking. Hegel drafted his own psychological ideas in Bern in 1794 based on his lecture notes from Tübingen.

swell

1. ^ Hegel, GWF (1989). Text 27: A manuscript on psychology and transcendental philosophy (1794). In GWF Hegel: Collected Works. Vol. 1: Early writings, edited by Friedhelm Nicolin and Gisela Schüler, Felix Meiner, Hamburg, pp. 167–192.

Works

• Commentatio in qua symbolica ecclesiae nostrae de deitate Christi sententia probatur et vindicatur, Göttingen 1788.
• Observationes quaedam ad comparandam Kantianam disciplinam cum christiana doctrina pertinentes, Tübingen 1792.
• Lectures on Christian Morals, ed. v. Johann Christian Friedrich Steudel, Tübingen 1823.
• Lectures on Pauli's letters, ed. v. Christian Daniel Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian Friedrich Kling, Tübingen 1825–31. * Magazine for Christian Dogmatics and Morals, Tübingen 1796–1803 (continued by Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind , his brother's predecessor at the Tübingen Chair of Dogmatics).

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Flatt, Johann Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 50-51.
• Michael Franz : "Tübingen Orthodoxy". An enemy image of the young Schelling and Hegel , in: Vernunft und Glaube, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004289-3 , pp. 141-160
• Julius Hartmann:  Joh. Friedrich Flatt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 103.
• Mukendi Mbuyi: Kant's Tübingen critic. Johann Friedrich Flatt's criticism of Kant's moral argument for accepting God, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8265-9174-7 .
• Eberhard H. Pältz:  Flatt, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 223 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Werner Raupp : Flatt, Johann Friedrich. In: The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. General Editors Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Vol. 1, London / New York 2010, pp. 333–334.