Karl Philipp Fischer

Karl Philipp Fischer (born March 5, 1807 in Herrenberg , † February 25, 1885 in Winnenden ) was a German philosopher.

biography

Karl Philipp Fischer, philosopher became a private lecturer, then an associate professor of philosophy in Tübingen , worked as a full professor in Erlangen from 1841 , from where he moved to Cannstatt in 1876 , and died in the Winnenthal sanatorium near Winnenden. Fischer, along with Christian Hermann Weisse and Immanuel Hermann von Fichte, is one of the founders of the newer theist school, although he did not, like Weisse, from Hegel , nor, like Fichte, from his father, but from Schelling (in his later period) and the theosophist Franz Xaver was suggested by Baader .

Since 1864 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The freedom of the will (Tübingen 1833);
Science of Metaphysics (Stuttgart 1834);
Idea of deity (Stuttgart 1839);
Speculative characteristics and criticism of the Hegelian system (Erlangen 1845);
The speculative dogmatics of Dr. Strauss (Tübingen 1841–42, 2 issues);
Fundamentals of the System of Philosophy (Frankfurt 1845–55, 3 vols.), His main work; further:
On the untruth of sensualism and materialism (Erlangen 1855);
About the impossibility of making naturalism a complementary part of science (Erlangen 1854; against Johann Eduard Erdmann , who responded with a memorandum , Halle 1854);
For the centenary of Baader’s birth (Erlangen 1865)

Richard Falckenberg : Fischer, Karl Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 574 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Karl Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fischer, Carl Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herrenberg
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1885
Place of death	Winnenden