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ESCHENMAYER, See also:ADAM KARL See also:AUGUST VON (1768-1852) , See also:German philosopher and physicist, was See also:born at Neuenburg in See also:Wurttemberg in See also:July 1768. After receiving his See also:early See also:education at the See also:Caroline See also:academy of See also:Stuttgart, he entered the university of See also:Tubingen, where he received the degree of See also:doctor of See also:medicine. He practised for some See also:time as a physician at Sulz, and then at Kirchheim, and in 1811 he was chosen extraordinary See also:professor of See also:philosophy and medicine at Tubingen. In 1818 he became See also:ordinary professor of See also:practical philosophy, but in 1836 he resigned and took up his See also:residence at Kirchheim, where he devoted his whole See also:attention to philosophical studies. Eschenmayer's views are largely identical with those of See also:Schelling, but he differed from him in regard to the knowledge of the See also:absolute. He believed that in See also:order to See also:complete the arc of truth philosophy must be supplemented by what he called " non-philosophy," a See also:kind of mystical See also:illumination by which was obtained a belief in See also:God that could not be reached by See also:mere intellectual effort (see See also:Hoffding, Hist. of Mod. Phil., Eng. trans. vol. 2, p. 170). He carried this tendency to See also:mysticism into his See also:physical researches, and was led by it to take a deep See also:interest in the phenomena of See also:animal See also:magnetism. He ultimately became a devout believer in demoniacal and spiritual See also:possession; and his later writings are all strongly impregnated with the See also:lower supernaturalism. His See also:principal See also:works are—Die Philosophic in ihrem Ubergange zur Nichtphilosophie (1803); Versuch See also:die scheinbare Magic See also:des thierischen Magnetismus aus physiol. and psychischen Gesetzen zu erkldren (1816) ; See also:System der Moralphilosophie (1818) ; Psychologie in drei Theilen, als empirische, refine, angewandte (1817, 2nd ed.

1822); Religionsphilosophie (3 vols., 1818—1824) ; Die See also:

Hegel'sche Religionsphilosophie verglichen mit dent christl. Princip (1834) ; Der Ischariotismus unserer Tage (1835) (directed against See also:Strauss's See also:Life of Jesus); Konflikt zwischen See also:Himmel and See also:Halle, an dem See also:Damon eines besessenen Madchens beobachtet (1837) ; Grundriss der Naturphilosophie (1832) ; Grundziige der christl. Philosophic (184o); and Betrachtungen fiber den physischen Weltbau (1852).

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