Gottlob Ernst Schulze
Gottlob Ernst Schulze (German: [ˈʃʊltsə]; 23 August 1761 – 14 January 1833) was a German philosopher, born in Heldrungen (modern-day Thuringia, Germany). He was the grandfather of the pioneering biochemist Ernst Schulze.
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| Born | 23 August 1761 |
| Died | 14 January 1833 (aged 71) |
| Alma mater | University of Wittenberg |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | German idealism German skepticism |
| Institutions | University of Wittenberg University of Helmstedt University of Göttingen |
Main interests | Epistemology |
Notable ideas | Hume's skepticism about induction was not disproved by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason |
Biography
Schulze was a professor at Wittenberg, Helmstedt, and Göttingen.[1] His most influential book was Aenesidemus (1792), a skeptical polemic against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Philosophy of the Elements.
In Göttingen, he advised his student Arthur Schopenhauer to concentrate on the philosophies of Plato and Kant. This advice had a strong influence on Schopenhauer's philosophy. In the winter semester of 1810 and 1811, Schopenhauer studied both psychology and metaphysics under Schulze.[2]
Schulze died in Göttingen on January 14th, 1833.
Quotes
- "As determined by the Critique of Pure Reason, the function of the principle of causality thus undercuts all philosophizing about the where or how of the origin of our cognitions. All assertions on the matter, and every conclusion drawn from them, become empty subtleties, for once we accept that determination of the principle as our rule of thought, we could never ask, "Does anything actually exist which is the ground and cause of our representations?". We can only ask, "How must the understanding join these representations together, in keeping with the pre-determined functions of its activity, in order to gather them as one experience?"[3]
References
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 7, New York: Macmillan, 1972.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, Vol. 2, Berg, 1988, ISBN 0-85496-539-4.
- Di Giovanni, George, and H. S. Harris (eds.), Between Kant and Hegel, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000, p. 131, ISBN 0-87220-504-5 (original quote from: Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Aenesidemus, 1792, pp. 176–7).