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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 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 ...
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
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 Jacobi’s 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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Quick Reference. (1743–1819) German philosopher and friend of Hamann, Herder, Lessing, and Goethe. Jacobi was a notable early critic of Kant, and indeed of the Enlightenment in general, which he believed led only to atheism and nihilism (a term he originally coined).
