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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 ...
Dec 6, 2001 · Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. 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. He was initially not regarded as a first–rate ...
- George di Giovanni, Paolo Livieri
- 2001
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (born Jan. 25, 1743, Düsseldorf, duchy of Berg [Germany]—died March 10, 1819, Munich, Bavaria) 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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Dec 6, 2001 · 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.
Dec 6, 2001 · 1. Life and Intellectual Carrier. Like his junior contemporary Goethe (1749–1832), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was blessed with a long life, at least as measured by the standards of the time, and had the good fortune of witnessing in its course events that radically altered the cultural and political face of Western Europe. []
JACOBI, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH(1743–1819) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was a leading representative, with Johann Georg Hamann, of the philosophy of feeling and a major critic of Immanuel Kant. He was born in D ü sseldorf on the Rhine. Jacobi received an education preparing him for a business career, but an inner urge drove him to the pursuit of ...
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 ...
