Hermann Lotze 1817 – 1881
Hermann Lotze (1817 – 1881) was a German philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Rudolf Hermann Lotze was a German philosopher and physician whose work bridged the late idealist and the natural-scientific cultures of nineteenth-century Germany. Trained in both medicine and philosophy at Leipzig, he succeeded Herbart at Gottingen and dominated German philosophy from the chair there for thirty years. His three-volume Microcosmus offered a vast philosophical anthropology in which mechanism is universal in extent but subordinate in significance to a world of values, while his Logic and Metaphysics shaped the next generation through students including Bradley, Royce, James, and the founders of the neo-Kantian movement.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Hermann Lotze:
“Mechanism is universal in extent, subordinate in significance.”
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Attributed to Hermann Lotze:
“The world of values is more real than the world of mere fact.”
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Attributed to Hermann Lotze:
“Science teaches the how; philosophy seeks the why.”
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Attributed to Hermann Lotze:
“The unity of nature is mirrored in the unity of the spirit that contemplates it.”
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Attributed to Hermann Lotze:
“The good is what realizes the meaning of being.”
Hermann Lotze by topic
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