Johann Gustav Vogt

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Johann Gustav Vogt (born February 4, 1843 in Florence , † around 1920) was a German natural scientist and natural philosopher . Among other things, he taught at the University of Leipzig .

The monist Ernst Haeckel quoted his (now much less well-known) colleague JG Vogt mainly with regard to his ideas about electromagnetism and a universal ether . According to Haeckel and Vogt, mass and ether have both sensation and will, they “feel pleasure when there is compression , discomfort when there is tension ; they strive for the former and fight against the latter ”. Because of this worldview , the two are also referred to as hylozoistic natural philosophers.

After Friedrich Nietzsche had his idea of ​​the “ Eternal Second Coming ” in 1881 , he also read Vogt's work Die Kraft as part of natural philosophy studies . A real-monistic worldview (1878). In dealing with this work, among other things, Nietzsche later developed his doctrine of the “ will to power ”.

Johann Gustav was the brother of the legal scholar Gustav Vogt .

Works

  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The power. A real, monistic worldview. Haupt & Tischler, Leipzig 1878.
    • Volume 1: The contraction energy: the ultimate, uniform mechanical form of action of the world substrate.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The mental activity of the human being and the mechanical conditions of the conscious expression of sensation on the basis of a uniform worldview. Lectures. 2nd Edition. Wiest, Leipzig 1889. (1st edition Schmidt, Leipzig 1887.)
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The essence of electricity and magnetism based on a uniform concept of substance (1891)
  • W. Beck: Electricity and its technology: a common understanding of the basic physical concepts and the practical application of electricity; plus an appendix: The essence of electricity and magnetism by JG Vogt. Published by Ernst Wiest Nachf, Leipzig 1896.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The principle of sensation and the protoplasm: based on a uniform concept of substance. Wiest, Leipzig 1891.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The Incarnation. Development of humans from the main series of primates and the justification of the wide gap between animals and humans ... Wiest, Leipzig 1892.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: A world and life view for the people. Leipzig 1892/93, 3 volumes:
    • Book 1: The human urges
    • Book 2: The Development of Humans as Carriers of Culture
    • Book 3: The Laws of Economic Development
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The emergence and decay of the world as a cosmic cycle due to the pyknotic concept of substance. 2nd, revised edition. Wiest, Leipzig 1901. (1st edition Gottwald, Leipzig 1889)
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The Realmonism; a scientific worldview with special consideration of the mental and life problem. Thuringian Publishing House, Leipzig 1908.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The absolute monism; a mechanistic worldview based on the pyknotic concept of substance. Thuringian Publishing House, Hildburghausen 1912.
  • Johann Gustav Vogt: The relativity theory of physics. Breitenbach, Brackwede 1914.

literature

  • Martin Bauer: On the genealogy of Nietzsche's concept of force: Nietzsche's discussion with JG Vogt. In: Nietzsche Studies. Vol. 13, 1984, pp. 211-227.

credentials

  1. ↑ Ernst Haeckel: Die Weltträtsel (1899) , Chapter 12: The substance law
  2. ↑ see Rudolf Eisler dictionary of philosophical terms
  3. ↑ see Rudolf Eisler dictionary of philosophical terms
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Johann Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH around 1920