Karl Fortlage

Karl Fortlage (born June 12, 1806 in Osnabrück , † November 8, 1881 in Jena ) was a German philosopher .

Karl Fortlage's grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Jena

Karl Fortlage was appointed private lecturer in Heidelberg in 1829, in Berlin in 1845 and in Jena as professor of philosophy in 1846.

Originally a Hegelian, as his youthful publication Die Lücken des Hegelschen Systems (Heidelb. 1832) proves, he went on, prompted by the study of Kant and especially Fichte and Beneke , to merge the theory of science with empirical psychology and to adopt a standpoint that he himself called transcendental pantheism.

His two main philosophical works are: Genetic history of philosophy since Kant (Leipzig 1852) u. System of Psychology (Leipzig 1855, 2 vol.).

Fonts (selection)

• Presentation and criticism of the evidence for the existence of God (Heidelberg 1840);
• The musical system of the Greeks (Leipzig 1847);
• Eight psychological lectures (Jena 1869, 2nd ed. 1872);
• Six philosophical lectures (Jena 1869);
• Four psychological lectures (Jena 1874);
• Friedrich Rückert and his works (Frankfurt 1867);
• Contributions to psychology as a science based on speculation and experience (Leipzig 1875).

literature

• Heinz Alfred Brockhaus:  Fortlage, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 304 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Fortlage  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karl Fortlage in the catalog of the German National Library