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Name:
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Dates:
Born: January 25,1743 in Dusseldorf, Germany
Died: March 10, 1819 in Munich, Germany
Specialization:
Epistemology
Romanticism
Major Works:
David Hume on Belief, or Idealism and Realism (1787)
Biography:
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an influential critic of other German philosophers like
Immanuel Kant, GWF Hegel, and Moses Mendelssohn. In particular, he was the first
to take note of a fundamental contradiction in Kant's transcendental philosophy:
although it was true that no one could engage in such philosophy without assuming
the existence of things-in-themselves, it was also true that such a belief is
ultimately incompatible with that philosophy. Thus, the entire programe is rendered
incoherent.
For his own philosophy, Jacobi promoted a fideistic perspective on epistemology, arguing that not only morality and religion but in fact every area of human life was ultimately dependent upon "leaps of faith." Thus, our beliefs about the world around us and what constitutes reality are fundamentally based upon faith rather than logic and necessity. These ideas would be influential in the development of Geman Romanticism.
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