Marburg school
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The Marburg school was a prominent philosophical movement that emerged in the mid-19th century as a revival of Kantianism in German universities. This movement, known as Neo-Kantianism, initially focused on epistemology, exploring how we gain knowledge, and later expanded to encompass broader philosophical domains.1
Key figures associated with the Marburg school include Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. They emphasized the transcendental method, focusing on the logical construction of knowledge rather than empirical or psychological explanations. Ernst Cassirer, another prominent member, applied Kantian principles to the study of cultural phenomena. The Marburg school's approach, often termed logistic Neo-Kantianism, viewed experience as a construction of the logical spirit, rejecting the idea of knowledge being simply "given".12
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- Hermann Cohen
… philosopher and founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantian philosophy, which emphasized “pure” thought and ethics rather than metaphysics.
Read More… philosopher and founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantian philosophy, which emphasized “pure” thought and ethics rather than metaphysics.
Read More - Friedrich Albert Lange
…philosophy at the University of Marburg and was largely responsible for a Kantian revival there. His Logische Studien (“Studies in Logic”) was published in 1877, after his death.
Read More…philosophy at the University of Marburg and was largely responsible for a Kantian revival there. His Logische Studien (“Studies in Logic”) was published in 1877, after his death.
Read More - Paul Natorp
…Neo-Kantian philosopher, who represented the Marburg school in the philosophy of science and inquired particularly into its necessary presuppositions after the fashion of Kantian “transcendental logic.” He wrote Die logischen Grundlagen der exakten Wissenschaft (1910; “The Logical Bases of Exact Science”).
Read More…Neo-Kantian philosopher, who represented the Marburg school in the philosophy of science and inquired particularly into its necessary presuppositions after the fashion of Kantian “transcendental logic.” He wrote Die logischen Grundlagen der exakten Wissenschaft (1910; “The Logical Bases of Exact Science”).
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idealismTypes of philosophical idealism…Kant forward,” founded the so-called Marburg school of Neo-Kantian idealism. They rejected the idealisms of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel and the classical Newtonian dynamics presupposed by Kant and built instead upon the new quantum and relativity theories of modern physics. Founded in the late 19th century by Hermann Cohen, champion…
Read More…Kant forward,” founded the so-called Marburg school of Neo-Kantian idealism. They rejected the idealisms of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel and the classical Newtonian dynamics presupposed by Kant and built instead upon the new quantum and relativity theories of modern physics. Founded in the late 19th century by Hermann Cohen, champion…
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KantianismNature and types of Kantianism…the logistic Kantianism of the Marburg school, which stressed essences and the use of logic; and the realistic Kantianism of the Austrian Alois Riehl. Metaphysical Kantianism developed from the transcendental idealism of German Romanticism to realism, a course followed by many speculative thinkers,
Read More…the logistic Kantianism of the Marburg school, which stressed essences and the use of logic; and the realistic Kantianism of the Austrian Alois Riehl. Metaphysical Kantianism developed from the transcendental idealism of German Romanticism to realism, a course followed by many speculative thinkers,
Read More- KantianismProblems of Kantianism
A student of Cohen at Marburg, the metaphysician Nicolai Hartmann, became the harbinger of the realistic approach, elaborating in his Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntniss (1921; “Outline of a Metaphysics of Knowledge”) on an ontological relation that he discerned to obtain between two forms of being: thought and reality. Accordingly,…
Read MoreA student of Cohen at Marburg, the metaphysician Nicolai Hartmann, became the harbinger of the realistic approach, elaborating in his Grundzüge einer Metaphysik der Erkenntniss (1921; “Outline of a Metaphysics of Knowledge”) on an ontological relation that he discerned to obtain between two forms of being: thought and reality. Accordingly,…
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