Moritz Geiger

German philosopher

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Moritz Geiger was a German philosopher and one of the early proponents of phenomenology. He was a student of Theodor Lipps and later discovered support in Edmund Husserl's work. Geiger was part of a group of philosophers who moved away from psychologism and embraced phenomenology as a way to return to intuition and essential insights as the foundation of philosophy.12

Geiger specifically applied this phenomenological approach to aesthetics and the philosophy of law. He was a coeditor of the Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, a key publication for the phenomenological movement. Unlike some other phenomenologists, Geiger and his contemporaries did not fully follow Husserl's path toward transcendental idealism, instead exploring a phenomenology aligned with realism.1

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Moritz Geiger applied the new approach particularly to aesthetics and Adolf Reinach to the philosophy of law. The most original and dynamic of Husserl’s early associates, however, was Max Scheler, who had joined the Munich group and who did his major phenomenological work on problems…
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