See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB See also:

• SIGISMUND (1368-1437)

SIGISMUND See also:

• BECK (or BEEK), DAVID (1621—1656)
• BECK, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1757-1832)
• JAKOB SIGISMUND BECK (1761-1840)

BECK (1761-1840)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig in 1761 . Educated at See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, he became'See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy first at See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle (1791—1799) and then at See also:

• ROSTOCK

Rostock . He devoted himself to See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism and explanation of the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant, and in 1793 published the Erlduternder Auszug aus Kants kritischen Schriften, which has been widely used as a compendium of Kantian doctrine . He endeavoured to explain away certain of the contradictions which are found in Kant's See also:

• SYSTEM

system by saying that much of the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is used in a popular sense for the See also:

• SAKE

sake of intelligibility, e.g. where Kant attributes to things - in - themselves an existence under the conditions of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, space and causality, and yet holds that they furnish the material of our apprehensions . See also:

• BECK (or BEEK), DAVID (1621—1656)
• BECK, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1757-1832)
• BECK, JAKOB SIGISMUND (1761-1840)

Beck maintains that the real meaning of Kant's theory is See also:

• IDEALISM (from Gr. i5Ea, archetype or model, through been urged of the truth of its point of view is the persistency Fr. idealisme)

idealism; that of See also:

• OBJECTS

objects outside the domain of consciousness, knowledge is impossible, and hence that nothing See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive remains when we have removed the subjective See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element . See also:

• MATTER

Matter is deduced by the " See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• SYNTHESIS (Gr. a6vOeacs, from avvrcBivac, to put together)

synthesis." Similarly, the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of See also:

• GOD

God is a symbolical See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of the See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice of See also:

• CONSCIENCE (Lat. con-scientia, literally " knowledge of a thing shared with another person " or " complete knowledge," and derivatively " consciousness in general)
• CONSCIENCE, HENDRIK (1812-1883)

conscience guiding from within . The value of Beck's exegesis has been to a See also:

• GREAT

great extent overlooked owing to the greater See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention given to the See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• FICHTE, IMMANUEL HERMANN (originally HARTMANN) VON (1797-1879)
• FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB (1762-1814)

Fichte . Beside the three volumes of the Erlduternder Auszug, he published the Grundriss der krit . Philosophic (1796), containing an See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of the Kantian Kritik in the manner of Salomon See also:

• MAIMON, SALOMON (1754—1800)

Maimon . See See also:

• UEBERWEG, FRIEDRICH (1826-1871)

Ueberweg, Grundriss der Gesch. der Philos. der Neuzeit; Dilthey in the Archie fiir Geschichte der Philos., vol. ii . (1889), pp . 592-650 .

For Beck's letters to Kant, see R . Reicke, Aus Kants Briefwechsel (Konigsberg, 1885) .