Gottlob Ernst Schulze

Gottlob Ernst Schulze
Born 23 August 1761
Heldrungen
Died 14 January 1833
Göttingen
Alma mater University of Wittenberg
Era 18th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School German Idealism
German skepticism
Institutions University of Wittenberg
University of Helmstedt
University of Göttingen
Main interests
Epistemology
Notable ideas
Hume's skepticism about induction was not disproved by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Gottlob Ernst Schulze (23 August 1761 – 14 January 1833) was a German philosopher, born in Heldrungen (modern-day Thuringia, Germany).

Biography

Schulze was a professor at Wittenberg, Helmstedt, and Göttingen.[1] His most influential book was Aenesidemus (1792), a skeptical polemic against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Philosophy of the Elements.

In Göttingen, he advised his student Arthur Schopenhauer to concentrate on the philosophies of Plato and Kant. This advice had a strong influence on Schopenhauer's philosophy. In the winter semester of 1810 and 1811, Schopenhauer studied both psychology and metaphysics under Schulze.[2]

Schulze died in Göttingen.

Quotes

References

  1. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 7, New York: Macmillan, 1972.
  2. Arthur Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, Vol. 2, Berg, 1988, ISBN 0-85496-539-4.
  3. Di Giovanni, George, and H. S. Harris (eds.), Between Kant and Hegel, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000, p. 131, ISBN 0-87220-504-5 (original quote from: Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Aenesidemus, 1792, pp. 176–7).
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