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He was born at Eisenberg, Germany on the 4th of May 1781.
(Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781 - 1832), fue el fun...)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781 - 1832), fue el fundador del panenteísmo, la doctrina que procuró conciliar el teísmo tradicional, el panteísmo y la religión natural. Dios reabsorbe la naturaleza, el espíritu y la humanidad. Él es la meta última del progreso, tras el retorno del género humano a Dios, que habrá seguido un camino llamado por Krause "sintético" o "subjetivo". Las ideas de este filósofo influyeron sobremanera en autores españoles y latinoamericanos, inspirando la fundación de centros culturales y universidades. Su introductor en España fue Julián Sanz del Rio (1814-1869), filósofo, pedagogo y jurista, maestro de Francisco Giner de los Ríos y compañero de Fernando de Castro. El segundo, junto con otros escritores y profesores de tendencia krausista, sería el fundador de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza. El presente ensayo de Krause, «Ideal de la humanidad para la vida», expone las líneas esenciales de su doctrina. En él se aconseja que se constituya una república mundial que agrupe cinco federaciones regionales de Europa, Asia, África, América y Australia. Esto hace de su autor uno de los precursores de la idea de un gobierno mundial único.
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(Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...)
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain da ghastly dew From the nations airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbb dno longer, and the battle-flags were furl d Inthe Parliament of men, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, laptin universal law. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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He was born at Eisenberg, Germany on the 4th of May 1781.
Educated at first at Eisenberg, he proceeded to Jena, where he studied philosophy under Hegel and Fichte and became privatdozent in 1802.
In 1804, lack of pupils compelled him to move to Rudolstadt and later to Dresden, where he gave lessons in music. In 1805 his ideal of a universal world-society led him to join the Freemasons, whose principles seemed to tend in the direction he desired. In Dresden he published two books on Freemasonry, Höhere Vergeistigung der echt überlieferten Grundsymbole der Freimaurerei: in zwölf Logenvorträgen (1811) and Die drei ältesten Kunsterkunden der Freimaurerbrüderschaft (1819), but his opinions drew upon him the opposition of the Masons.
He lived for a time in Berlin and became a privatdozent, but was unable to obtain a professorship. He therefore proceeded to Gottingen and afterwards to Munich, where he died of apoplexy at the very moment when the influence of Franz von Baader had at last obtained a position for him.
The comparatively small area of Krause's influence was due partly to the overshadowing brilliance of Hegel, and partly to two intrinsic defects. The spirit of his thought is mystical and by no means easy to follow, and this difficulty is accentuated, even to German readers, by the use of artificial terminology. He makes use of germanized foreign terms which are unintelligible to the ordinary man. His principal works are (beside those quoted above): Entwurf des Systems der Philosophie (1804); System der Sittenlehre (1810); Das Urbild der Menschheit (1811); and Vorlesungen uber das System der Philosophie (1828). He left behind him at his death a mass of unpublished notes, part of which has been collected and published by his disciples, H. Ahrens (1808 - 1874), Leonhardi, Tiberghien and others.
His philosophy, known as Krausism became particularly influential in Spain in the 19th century, where Krause's ideas were introduced by Julián Sanz del Río, an academic based in Madrid. Spanish intellectuals influenced by Krause included Francisco Giner de los Ríos and Gumersindo de Azcárate. In addition Krause's influence extended to Latin America, where his work made an impact on Hipólito Yrigoyen, José Batlle y Ordóñez and Juan José Arévalo.
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One of the so-called "Philosophers of Identity", Krause endeavoured to reconcile the ideas of a God known by Faith or Conscience and the world as known to sense. God, intuitively known by Conscience, is not a personality (which implies limitations), but an all-inclusive essence (Wesen), which contains the Universe within itself. This system he called Panentheism, a combination of Theism and Pantheism. His theory of the world and of humanity is universal and idealistic. The world itself and mankind, its highest component, constitute an organism (Gliedbau), and the universe is therefore a divine organism (Wesengliedbau).
The process of development is the formation of higher unities, and the last stage is the identification of the world with God. The form which this development takes, according to Krause, is Right or the Perfect Law. Right is not the sum of the conditions of external liberty but of absolute liberty, and embraces all the existence of nature, reason and humanity. It is the mode, or rationale, of all progress from the lower to the highest unity or identification. By its operation the reality of nature and reason rises into the reality of humanity. God is the reality which transcends and includes both nature and humanity. Right is, therefore, at once the dynamic and the safeguard of progress.
Ideal society results from the widening of the organic operation of this principle from the individual man to small groups of men, and finally to mankind as a whole. The differences disappear as the inherent identity of structure predominates in an ever- increasing degree, and in the final unity Man is merged in God.
In 1802 he married Sophie Amalie Concordia Fuchs (born 1780), without dowry.
