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HERMANN ULRICI (1806-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN See also:ULRICI (1806-1884)  , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at Pforten, See also:Prussia, on the 23rd of See also:March 1806 . He was educated for the See also:law, but gave up his profession on the See also:death of his See also:father, and devoted four years to the study of literature, See also:philosophy and See also:science . In 1834 he was called to a See also:professor-See also:ship at See also:Halle, where he remained till his death, on the 11th of See also:January 1884 . His philosophical standpoint may be characterized as a reaction from the pantheistic tendency of See also:Hegel's idealistic See also:rationalism towards a more pronouncedly theistic position . The Hegelian identity of being and thought is also abandoned and the truth of See also:realism acknowledged, an See also:attempt being made to exhibit See also:idealism and realism as respectively incomplete but mutually complementary systems . See also:Ulrici's later See also:works, while expressing the same views, are largely occupied in proving the existence of See also:God and the soul from the basis of scientific conceptions, and in opposition to the materialistic current of thought then popular in See also:Germany . His first works were in the See also:sphere of See also:literary See also:criticism; of his See also:treatise On See also:Shakespeare's Dramatic See also:Art (1839; See also:editions, 1847, 1868, 1874), the 3rd ed. was translated into See also:English by L . D . Schmitz in 1876 . In 1841 he published Uber Princip u . Methode der Hegelschen Philosophie, a severe criticism of the Hegelian See also:system . This was continued in the Grundprincip der Philosophie (1845—1846), which also gives his speculative position .

Complementary to this is his System der Logik (1852) . His later works on the relation of philosophy to science and to the thought of his See also:

time were more popular in See also:character . These are Glauben u . Wissen (1858), Gott u. See also:die Natur (1862; 3rd ed., 1875), Gott and der Mensch (2 vols., 1866—1873; 2nd ed., 1874) . From 1847 onward Ulrici edited, jointly with the younger See also:Fichte, the Zeitschrift fiir Philosophie u . Phil . Kritik . See See also:Frankel 's art. in Allgemeine deutsche Biog . (1895) and works there quoted .

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