Background
Karl Fortlage was born in 1806 at Osnabruck.
philosopher psychologist university professor
Karl Fortlage was born in 1806 at Osnabruck.
Karl Fortlage taught in Heidelberg and Berlin before becoming professor of philosophy at Jena in 1846, a post he held until his death. The fundamental idea of his psychology is impulse, which combines representation (thereby presupposing consciousness) and feeling (ie pleasure). Reason is the highest thing in nature, id est (that is) it is divine in its nature.
The fundamental idea of Karl Fortlage's psychology is impulse, which combines representation (which presupposes consciousness) and feeling (i. e. pleasure). Reason is the highest thing in nature, i. e. is divine in its nature, God is the absolute Ego and the empirical egos are his instruments.