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HOFFDING, HARALD (1843– )

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HOFFDING, See also:HARALD (1843– ) , Danish philosopher, was See also:born and educated in See also:Copenhagen. He became a school-See also:master, and ultimately in 1883 See also:professor in the university of Copenhagen. He was much influenced by Soren See also:Kierkegaard in the See also:early development of his thought, but later became a positivist, retaining, however, and combining with it the spirit and method of See also:practical See also:psychology and the See also:critical school. His best-known See also:work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into See also:English from the See also:German edition (1895) by B. E. See also:Meyer as See also:History of See also:Modern See also:Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and correct that of Hans Brochner, to whom it is dedicated. His Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1903) and Philosophy of See also:Religion (1906) also have appeared in English. Among Hoffding's other writings, practically all of which have been translated into German, are: Den engelske Filosofi i vor Tid (1874); Etik (1876; ed. 1879); Psychologi i Omrids See also:pale Grundlag of Esfaring (ed. 1892) ; Psykologiske Undersogelser (1889) ; See also:Charles See also:Darwin (1889); Kontinuiteten i Kants fzlosofiske Udviklingsgang (1893); Det psykologiske Grundlag for logiske Domme (1899); See also:Rousseau and See also:seine Philosophie (1901) ; Mindre Arbejder (1899).

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