WILHELM TRAUGOTT See also:

• WILHELM TRAUGOTT KRUG (1770-1842)

KRUG (1770-1842)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher and author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Radis in See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia on the 22nd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1770, and died at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig on the 12th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1842 . He studied at See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg under Reinhard and Jehnichen, at See also:

• JENA

Jena under See also:

• REINHOLD, KARL LEONHARD (1758-1823)

Reinhold, and at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen . From 1801 to 1804 he was 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 at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-the-See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

Oder, after which he succeeded See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant in the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic and See also:

• METAPHYSICS
• METAPHYSICS, or METAPHYSIC (from Gr. /sera, after, d v med, things of nature, lots, i.e. the natural universe)

metaphysics at the university of See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg . From 1809 till his See also:

• DEATH

death he was professor of philosophy at Leipzig . He was a prolific writer on a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of subjects, in all of which he excelled as a popularizer rather than as an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original thinker . In philosophy his method was psychological; he attempted to explain the Ego by examining the nature of its reflection upon the facts of consciousness . Being is known to us only through its presentation in consciousness; consciousness only in its relation to Being . Both Being and Consciousness, however, are immediately known to us, as also the relation existing between them . By this Transcendental See also:

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

Synthesis he proposed to reconcile See also:

• REALISM (from Low Lat. realis, appertaining to res, things, as opposed to ideas and imaginations)

Realism and 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, and to destroy the traditional difficulty between transcendental, or pure, thought and " things in themselves." Apart from the See also:

• INTRINSIC (through Fr. intrinsique, from Lat. intrinsecus, inwardly; inter, within, secus, following, from root of sequi, to follow)

intrinsic value of his See also:

• WORK

work, it is admitted that it had the effect of promoting the study of philosophy and of stimulating freedom of thought in See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion and politics . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works are: Briefe caber den neuesten Idealismus (18o1); Versuch fiber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Principien der philosophischen Erkenntniss (1801); Fundamentalphilosophie (1803); See also:

• SYSTEM

System der theoretischen Philosophie (18o6–181o), System der praklischen Philosophie (1817–1819); Handbuch der Philosophie (182o; 3rd ed., 1828); Logik oder Denklehre (1827); Geschichte der Philos. alter Zeit (1815; 2nd ed., 1825); Allgemeines Handworterbuch der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1827–1834; 2nd ed., 1832–1838); Universal-philosophische Vorlesungen See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Gebildete beiderlei Geschlechts . His work Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philos. See also:

• DES

des XIX . Jahrh .

(1835–1837) contains interesting criticisms of See also:

• HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH (1770-1831)

Hegel and See also:

• SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON (1775-1854)
• SCHELLING, KAROLINE (1763-1809)

Schelling . See also his autobiography, Meine Lebensreise (Leipzig, 2nd ed., 1840) .