Background
Scholz, Heinrich was born in 1884 in Berlin.
Scholz, Heinrich was born in 1884 in Berlin.
Universities of Berlin and Erlangen.
Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, University of Breslau, 1917-1919. Professor of Philosophy. University of Kiel, 1919 56.
Setting his face against subjectivism and existentialism—for the question of truth could not be raised if their methods were allowed—Scholz went in quest of the foundations of universal knowledge. He made extensive studies of the histories of logic, mathematics and science, and was convinced that the axiomatic method alone would yield fruitful results. He scrutinized Leibniz's doctrines of identity and possibility, wrote on classical and scholastic philosophers and, while valuing the contribution of Carnap and the Vienna Circle, considered that Platonism yielded stronger theoretical constructions than positivism. He developed a ‘Russell-revised Platonism’ to serve as the ontological foundation of mathematics. His work was not readily accessible to ‘the intelligent philosophical layman’, and even most metaphysicians—perhaps chilled by Scholz’s insistence that mathematical logic is indispensable to metaphysicsmanaged to ignore it.