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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described Hartmann's book as a "philosophy of unconscious irony", in his On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, one of the essays included in Untimely Meditations (1876). In Nietzsche's words: "Take a balance and put Hartmann's 'Unconscious' in one of the scales, and his 'World-process' in the other.
- Eduard von Hartmann
- Germany
- 1869
- Philosophie des Unbewussten
Today his opus is regarded as an essential contribution to a psychology of the unconscious and he himself is supposed to have been a precursor to psychoanalysis. This is rather surprising, as Nietzsche's philosophy contains no explicit theory of the unconscious; in other words, the concept of the unconscious is not at the center of his thinking.
- Martin Liebscher
- 2010
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The metaphysical system of E. v. Hartmann, by whom the absolute principle is called “the Unconscious.”. “According to v. Hartmann ( Philos. d. Unbewussten, 3) the unconscious is the absolute principle, active in all things, the force which is operative in the inorganic, organic, and mental alike, yet not revealed in consciousness (ibid ...
- Sebastian Gardner
- 2010
In one of his final words on Hartmann, Nietzsche groups his theory of the Unconscious alongside Duhring’s anti-Semitism as the two most invidious German poisons, a sin against life itself - life, which is not the placid acceptance of a common fate but the struggle to fulfill one’s own unique aims.
Dec 13, 2020 · According to Nietzsche, the Schopenhauerian solution to the problem of the tragedy of life—the individual negation of the will—is stupid ( dumm ). But stupid is also the solution proposed by Eduard von Hartmann in his book Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869), namely the individual’s surrender to the world process.
- Paolo Stellino
- paolo.stellino@fcsh.unl.pt
- 2020
So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1873, as part of his ironic response to the success of the Philosophy of the Unconscious (Philosophie des Unbewussten, 1869), written by the Berlin philosopher Eduard von Hartmann.
In sum, the Unconscious always unfolds itself into the realm of conscious knowing according to the Will of the Divine. Schopenhauer, in the framework of whose metaphysics Nietzsche at that time still lingered, had ample space to accommodate the Philosophy of the Unconscious and did, in fact, make considerable progress toward its principles
