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  1. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Quotes. To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

  2. Dec 6, 2001 · Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (b. 1743, d. 1819) was a critic of both modern philosophy and its offspring (the rationalism of German late Enlightenment), of Kant’s transcendental idealism, of Fichte’s systematic philosophy, and eventually of Schelling’s idealism.

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  3. Polemicist, socialite, and literary figure, Friedrich Jacobi (b. 1743, d. 1819) was an outspoken critic, first of the rationalism of German late Enlightenment philosophy, then of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, especially in the form that the early Fichte gave to it, and finally of the Romantic Idealism of the late Schelling.

  4. Dec 6, 2001 · Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi First published Thu Dec 6, 2001; substantive revision Mon Mar 15, 2010 Polemicist, socialite, and literary figure, Jacobi was an outspoken critic, first of the rationalism of German late Enlightenment philosophy, then of Kant's Transcendental Idealism, especially in the form that the early Fichte gave to it, and ...

  5. Nov 28, 2023 · FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI famous quotes. It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themse...

  6. This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was a German philosopher, major exponent of the philosophy of feeling (Gefühlsphilosophie) and a prominent critic of rationalism, especially as espoused by Benedict de Spinoza.

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  8. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite, and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi. He is notable for popularizing the term nihilism (coined by Obereit in 1787) and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling.

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