Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg 1802 – 1872
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802 – 1872) was a German philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy and the leading Aristotelian critic of Hegelian idealism in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Long-time professor at Berlin, he edited and interpreted Aristotle's logical and metaphysical works and articulated, in his Logical Investigations, a careful critique of the Hegelian dialectic for concealing under the cover of pure logic an Aristotelian motion that it refused to acknowledge. He shaped Brentano, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Dilthey, and made the history of philosophy a serious academic discipline at the German universities.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:
“Hegel's dialectic conceals an Aristotelian motion that he refused to acknowledge.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:
“Logic must always have its eye on the real, not on its own reflections.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:
“Movement is the deepest fact about being.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:
“The history of philosophy is the laboratory in which philosophy is tested.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg:
“Aristotle remains the master of those who think.”
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