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Hermann Ulrici Edit Profile

also known as Ulrich Reimann

philosopher

Hermann Ulrici was a German philosopher. He was co-editor (with I. H. Fichte) of the philosophical journal Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik.

Background

Hermann Ulrici was born at Pforten, Prussia, on the 23rd of March 1806.

Education

He was educated for the law, but gave up his profession on the death of his father, and devoted four years to the study of literature, philosophy and science.

Career

In 1834 he was called to a professorship at Halle, where he remained till his death, on the 11th of January 1884. His philosophical standpoint may be characterized as a reaction from the pantheistic tendency of Hegel's idealistic rationalism towards a more pronouncedly theistic position. The Hegelian identity of being and thought is also abandoned and the truth of realism acknowledged, an attempt being made to exhibit idealism and realism as respectively incomplete but mutually complementary systems. Ulrici's later works, while expressing the same views, are largely occupied in proving the existence of God and the soul from the basis of scientific conceptions, and in opposition to the materialistic current of thought then popular in Germany.

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  • He was a notable German philosopher. He also was co-editor (with I. H. Fichte) of the philosophical journal Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik.

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