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KARL FORTLAGE (,8o6-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORTLAGE (,8o6-1881)  , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Osnabruck . After teaching in See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, he became See also:professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Jena (1846), a See also:post which he held till his See also:death . Originally a follower of See also:Hegel, he turned to See also:Fichte and See also:Beneke (q.v.), with whose insistence on See also:psychology as the basis of all philosophy he fully agreed . The fundamental See also:idea of his psychology is impulse, which combines See also:representation (which presupposes consciousness) and feeling (i.e. See also:pleasure) . See also:Reason is the highest thing in nature, i.e. is divine in its nature, See also:God is the See also:absolute Ego and the empirical egos are his See also:instruments . See also:Fortlage's See also:chief See also:works are: Genetische Geschichte d . Philos. seit See also:Kant (See also:Leipzig, I852); See also:System d . Psych. als empirische Wissenschaft (2 vols., Leipzig, 1855) ; Darstellung and Kritik der Beweise See also:file das Dasein Gottes (Heidelberg, 184o) ; Beitrage zur Psych. als Wissenschaft (Leipzig, 1$75) .

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