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See also:HEMSTERHUIS, See also:FRANCOIS (1721-1790) , Dutch writer on See also:aesthetics and `moral See also:philosophy, son of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, was See also:born at See also:Franeker in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, on the 27th of See also:December 1721. He was educated at the university of See also:Leiden, where he studied See also:Plato. Failing to obtain a professorship, he entered the service of the See also:state, and for many years acted as secretary to the state See also:council of the See also:United Provinces. He died at the See also:Hague on the 7th of See also:July 1790. Through his philosophical writings he became acquainted with many distinguished persons—See also:Goethe, See also:Herder, Princess Amalia of See also:Gallitzin, and especially See also:Jacobi, with whom he had much in See also:common. Both were idealists, and their See also:works suffer from a similar lack of arrangement, although distinguished by elegance of See also:form and refined sentiment. His most valuable contributions are in the See also:department of aesthetics or the See also:general See also:analysis of feeling. His philosophy has been characterized as Socratic in content and Platonic in form. Its See also:foundation was the See also:desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammelled by the rigid bonds of any particular See also:system.
His most important works, all of which were written in See also:French, are: Lettre sur la See also:sculpture (1769), in which occurs the well-known See also:definition of the Beautiful as " that which gives us the greatest number of
ideas in the shortest space of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time "; its continuation, Lettre sur See also:les deities (17i0); Lettre sur l'homme et ses rapports (1772), in which the " moral See also:organ " and the theory of knowledge are discussed; Sopyle (1778), a See also:dialogue on the relation between the soul and the See also:body, and also an attack on See also:materialism; Aristee (1779), the
theodicy " of Hemsterhuis, discussing the existence of See also:God and his relation to See also:man; See also:Simon (1787), on the four faculties of the soul, which are the will, the See also:imagination, the moral principle (which is both passive and active) ; See also:Alexis (1787), an See also:attempt to prove that :here are three See also:golden ages, the last being the See also:life beyond the See also:grave; Lettre sur l'atheisme (1787).
The best collected edition of his works is by P. S. Meijboom (1846-185o) ; see also S. A. Gronemann, F.'Hemsterhuis, de Nederlandische Wijsgeer (See also:Utrecht, 1867) ; E. Grucker, Francois Hemsterhuis, sa See also:vie et ses eeatvres (See also:Paris, 1866) ; E. See also:Meyer, Der Philosoph See also:Franz Hemsterhuis (See also:Breslau, 1893), with See also:bibliographical See also:notice.
End of Article: HEMSTERHUIS, FRANCOIS (1721-1790)
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