Woldemar Oskar Döring

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Woldemar Oskar Döring (born October 24, 1880 in Leipzig , † September 20, 1948 in Lübeck ) was a German philosopher , psychologist and lawyer.

Life

Döring studied law and philosophy in Leipzig and received his doctorate in philosophy under Wilhelm Wundt in 1904 and in law in 1906. Döring was the head of the psychological-philosophical training courses for teachers in Lübeck. By 1934, when he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Culture for collaborating with scientists of "non-Aryan descent" (including standing up for William Stern ), he had written many philosophical and psychological works. Döring can be considered a co-founder of school psychology , u. a. he developed a "psychology of the school class" - which is regarded as a forerunner of today's research methods and was received in the USA and Russia.

From 1933 to 1945 Döring was not allowed to publish any more books, but according to Döring it was a "time of the most intense creative work". During this phase, most of his philosophical writings were created, which have only been published by LIT-Verlag since 1998 and comprise 11 volumes.

Holistic philosophy, epistemology and theory of science

In his early work (until 1933) Döring dealt with Kant , Fichte , Schopenhauer and the philosophy of art and published works for them that were generally understandable. In addition to his teacher Wundt, Döring's approach was particularly shaped by Kant and Stern's “personalistic philosophy”.

In his late work from 1934 to 1948, Döring dealt intensively with the theory of knowledge and science of individual disciplines. He described his approach as a holistic philosophy, which is one of the few holistic philosophical approaches that was not shaped by the National Socialist worldview. The focus is on the tension between “mechanistically piecemeal recognition” and “holistic recognition”. Döring's basic position was: Reality can only be understood according to its nature through holistic concepts; the reality of inanimate nature built up by mechanistic knowledge cannot be the true reality .

The 11 volumes published posthumously deal with the epistemology of physics, medicine and biology, sociology and history, law, cultural studies, linguistics and psychology. In doing so, in a critical examination of Kant, he developed a “holistic philosophical epistemology” based on a “criticism of holistic cognitive reason”.

Quotes

“Philosophy has the task of structuring the whole of reality theoretically on all sides . The individual sciences only shape the realm of their particular subject concept on one side. ”

Works

  • The appendix to the analytical part of the Critique of Pure Reason: On the amphibolism of the concepts of reflection, examined exegetically and critically, dissertation 1904
  • Feuerbach's criminal theory and its relationship to Kantian philosophy. Jena, Univ. 1906. Zugl. dissertation
  • Philosophy of art . 1922
  • Spruce. The man and his work . Lubeck Coleman 1924
  • Studies on the teacher's psychology , 1925
  • Psychoanalysis and Individual Psychology. Lübeck Coleman 1928
  • Educational psychology . Volume 5 of the series: Handbooks of modern educational science . Osterwieck am Harz, AW Zickfeldt Verlag 1929.
  • School class psychology. An empirical study. 1930
  • The mainstreams in modern psychology . Leipzig 1932.
  • The life's work of Immanuel Kant. Kulturverlag 1947.
  • Schopenhauer. Hansischer Gildenverlag, Hamburg 1947.
  • Linguistic knowledge in the light of the holistic philosophy of knowledge . LIT 2008.
  • Philosophy of knowledge. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge. Selected estate edition. LIT 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Döring, WHERE: Psychology of the school class. An empirical study. 1930
  2. ↑ Hesse, S: Can disruption-free lessons be planned ?: An empirical study in the first class of 1st grade. Bielefeld 2007
  3. ↑ Döring, WHERE: Philosophy of Knowing. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge . Selected estate edition. LIT 2009, XII
  4. ↑ Döring, WHERE: Philosophy of Knowing. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge. Selected estate edition. LIT 2009; VII
  5. ↑ Döring, WHERE: Philosophy of Knowing. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge. Selected estate edition. LIT 2009; VII
  6. ↑ Döring, WHERE: Philosophy of Knowing. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge. Selected estate edition. LIT 2009; X
  7. ↑ Döring, WHERE: Philosophy of Knowing. Outline of the holistic philosophy of knowledge. Selected estate edition. LIT 2009, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Döring, Woldemar Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Döring, Woldemar O .; Döring, Oskar; Döring, Woldemar Oscar; Döring, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1948
Place of death Lübeck