See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• FRANCOIS HEMSTERHUIS (1721-1790)
• HEMSTERHUIS, TIBERIUS (1685-1766)

HEMSTERHUIS (1721-1790)  , Dutch writer on See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics and `moral See also:

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

philosophy, son of Tiberius See also:

• HEMSTERHUIS, FRANCOIS (1721-1790)
• HEMSTERHUIS, TIBERIUS (1685-1766)

Hemsterhuis, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FRANEKER

Franeker in See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, on the 27th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1721 . He was educated at the university of See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, where he studied See also:

• PLATO

Plato . Failing to obtain a professorship, he entered the service of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and for many years acted as secretary to the state See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of the See also:

• UNITED

United Provinces . He died at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague on the 7th of See also:

• JULY

July 1790 . Through his philosophical writings he became acquainted with many distinguished persons—See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe, See also:

• HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON (1744-1803)

Herder, Princess Amalia of See also:

• GALLITZIN, DEMETRIUS AUGUSTINE (1770-1840)

Gallitzin, and especially See also:

• JACOBI, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH (1743-1819)
• JACOBI, JOHANN GEORG (1740-1814)
• JACOBI, KARL GUSTAV JACOB (1804-1851)

Jacobi, with whom he had much in See also:

• COMMON

common . Both were idealists, and their See also:

• WORKS

works suffer from a similar lack of arrangement, although distinguished by elegance of See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and refined sentiment . His most valuable contributions are in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of aesthetics or the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of feeling . His philosophy has been characterized as Socratic in content and Platonic in form . Its See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation was the See also:

• DESIRE

desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammelled by the rigid bonds of any particular See also:

• SYSTEM

system . His most important works, all of which were written in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, are: Lettre sur la See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture (1769), in which occurs the well-known See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition of the Beautiful as " that which gives us the greatest number of ideas in the shortest space 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 "; its continuation, Lettre sur See also:

• LES

les deities (17i0); Lettre sur l'homme et ses rapports (1772), in which the " moral See also:

• ORGAN

organ " and the theory of knowledge are discussed; Sopyle (1778), a See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue on the relation between the soul and the See also:

• BODY

body, and also an attack on See also:

• MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism; Aristee (1779), the theodicy " of Hemsterhuis, discussing the existence of See also:

• GOD

God and his relation to See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man; See also:

• SIMON, ABRAHAM (1622-1692)
• SIMON, JULES FRANCOIS (1814–1896)
• SIMON, RICHARD (1638–1712)
• SIMON, SIR JOHN (1816–1904)
• SIMON, THOMAS (c. 1623-1665)

Simon (1787), on the four faculties of the soul, which are the will, the See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, the moral principle (which is both passive and active) ; See also:

• ALEXIS
• ALEXIS, WILLIBALD

Alexis (1787), an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to prove that :here are three See also:

• GOLDEN

golden ages, the last being the See also:

• LIFE

life beyond the See also:

• GRAVE

grave; Lettre sur l'atheisme (1787) . The best collected edition of his works is by P . S .

Meijboom (1846-185o) ; see also S . A . Gronemann, F.'Hemsterhuis, de Nederlandische Wijsgeer (See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht, 1867) ; E . Grucker, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois Hemsterhuis, sa See also:

• VIE

vie et ses eeatvres (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1866) ; E . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer, Der Philosoph See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz Hemsterhuis (See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, 1893), with See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical See also:

• NOTICE

notice .