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BERNHARD See also:BOLZANO (1781-1848) , See also:Austrian See also:priest and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Prague on the 5th of See also:October 1781 . He distinguished himself at an See also:early See also:age, and on his ordination to the priesthood (18o5) was appointed See also:professor of the See also:philosophy of See also:religion in Prague University . His lectures, in which he endeavoured to show that See also:Catholic See also:theology is in See also:complete See also:harmony with See also:reason, were received with eager See also:interest by the younger See also:generation of thinkers . But his views met with much opposition; and it was only through the See also:protection of the See also:archbishop, See also:Prince Salm-Salm, that he was enabled to retain his See also:chair . In 1820 he was accused of being connected with some of the students' revolutionary See also:societies, and was compelled to resign . Several doctrines extracted from his See also:works were condemned at See also:Rome, and he was suspended from his priestly functions, spending the See also:rest of his See also:life in See also:literary See also:work . He died at Prague on the 18th of See also:December 1848 . The most important of his numerous works are the Wissenschaftslehre, See also:oder Versuch einer neuen Darstellung der Logik, advocating a scientific method in the study of See also:logic (4 vols., Sulzbach, 1837); the Lehrbuch der Religionswissenschaft (4 vols., Sulzbach, 1834), a philosophic See also:representation of all the dogmas of See also:Roman Catholic theology; and Athanasia, oder Griinde See also:fur See also:die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (2nd ed., See also:Mainz, 1838) . In philosophy he followed Reinhard in See also:ethics and the monadology of See also:Leibnitz, though he was also influenced by See also:Kant . See Lebensbeschreibung See also:des Dr See also:Bolzano (an autobiography, 1836) ; Wisshaupt, Skizzen aus dem Leben Dr Bolzanos (185o); Palagy, Kant and Bolzano (See also:Halle, 1902) . |
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