Hermann Cohen 1842 – 1918
Hermann Cohen was a German Jewish philosopher and the founder of the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism. Holding the chair of philosophy at Marburg for more than thirty years, he produced systematic reinterpretations of Kant's three Critiques and developed an original philosophy of logic, ethics, and aesthetics. After retirement he turned to the philosophy of Judaism, and his posthumous Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism became a foundational text of modern Jewish thought. He was Cassirer's teacher and a powerful influence on Rosenzweig and the broader twentieth-century Jewish renaissance.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Jewish, Continental
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Hermann Cohen:
“The moral law constitutes our humanity.”
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Attributed to Hermann Cohen:
“Religion is reason in the form of feeling.”
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Attributed to Hermann Cohen:
“The fellow-man is the discovery of ethics.”
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Attributed to Hermann Cohen:
“True knowledge is the construction of the object by the pure will of thought.”
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Attributed to Hermann Cohen:
“The future is the proper time of ethics.”