MORITZ

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• MORITZ CARRIERE (1817-1895)

CARRIERE (1817-1895)  , German philosopher and historian, was born at Griedel in Hesse Darmstadt on the 5th of March 1817 . After studying at Giessen; Gottingen and Berlin, he spent a few years in Italy studying the fine arts, and established himself in 1842 at Giessen as a teacher of philosophy . In r853 he was appointed professor at the university of Munich, where he lectured mainly on aesthetics . He died in Munich on the' 19th of January 1895 . An avowed enemy of Ultramontanism, he contributed in no small degree to making the idea of 'German unity more palatable to the South Germans . Carriere identified'CARROCCIO himself with the school of the younger Fichte as one who held the theistic view of the world which aimed at reconciling the contradictions between deism and pantheism . Although no obstinate adherent of antiquated forms and prejudices, he firmly upheld the fundamental truths of Christianity . His most important works are: Aesthetik (Leipzig, 1859; 3rd ed., 1885), supplemented by Die . Kwnst im Zusammenhang der Kulturentwicklung and der Ideate der Menschheit (3rd ed., .1877-1886); Die philosophische Weltanschauung der Reformaiionszeit (Stuttgart, 1847; 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1886), and Die sittliche Weltordnung (Leipzig, 1877; 2nd ed., 1891), in which he recognized both the immutability of the laws of nature and the freedom of the will . He described his view of the world and life as " real-idealism." His essay,9n Cromwell (in Lehensskizzen, 189o), which may be considered his political confession of faith, also deserves mention . His complete works were published at Leipzig, 14 vols., in 1886-1894 . See S .

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Lind in Zeitschrift f . Philos . (cvi, 1895, pp . 93-101); W . Christ in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1903) .