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  2. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (German:; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, and socialite. He is notable for popularizing nihilism , a term coined by Obereit in 1787, and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza ...

  3. Dec 6, 2001 · He was the one who forged the philosophical meaning of the concept of ‘nihilism,’ marking a difference from its religious connotation. In his vocabulary, nihilism was the necessary outcome of all philosophy after Aristotle. Though he never considered himself an irrationalist, he was accused of attacking reason and reintroducing conservative values.

    • George di Giovanni, Paolo Livieri
    • 2001
    • Rosie Lesso
    • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi made his name in the late 18th and early 19th century. Jacobi helped popularize the term Nihilism.
    • Søren Kierkegaard. Much like Jacobi, Danish theologist and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard feared the growing trend towards what he called Nihilism would have a corrosive and destructive effect on society.
    • Ivan Turgenev. The renowned writer Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist who wrote about Nihilism, using the term to describe a growing cynicism amongst the youth of 19th century Russia.
    • Friedrich Nietzsche. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is often closely associated with Nihilism, although like many of his fellow Nihilists, he greatly feared the impact it would have on society.
  4. Dec 16, 2020 · Abstract. In his open letter to Fichte dated 1799, Jacobi gave the final expression to his famous and controversial claim regarding the identity of philosophy and nihilism. In this chapter, Livieri shows Jacobis equation between the system of reason and the annihilation of the notion of God, which eventually leads to the negation of ...

    • Paolo Livieri
    • paolo.livieri.22@hosei.ac.jp
    • 2020
  5. Dec 6, 2001 · He was also responsible for forging the concept of ‘nihilism’ — a condition of which he accused the philosophers — and thereby initiating the discourse associated with it. His battle cry, which he first directed at the defenders of Enlightenment rationalism and then at Kant and his successors, was that ‘consistent philosophy is ...

  6. An exponent of British economic and political liberalism, Jacobi was an early critic of the French revolution, the destructiveness of which he considered the practical counterpart of the speculative nihilism of the philosophers.

  7. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism. His correspondence with Moses Mendelssohn regarding the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza were published and widely known as ...

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