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KRUG, WILHELM TRAUGOTT (1770-1842)

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KRUG, WILHELM TRAUGOTT (1770-1842) , See also:German philosopher and author, was See also:born at Radis in See also:Prussia on the 22nd of See also:June 1770, and died at See also:Leipzig on the 12th of See also:January 1842. He studied at See also:Wittenberg under Reinhard and Jehnichen, at See also:Jena under See also:Reinhold, and at See also:Gottingen. From 1801 to 1804 he was See also:professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Oder, after which he succeeded See also:Kant in the See also:chair of See also:logic and See also:metaphysics at the university of See also:Konigsberg. From 1809 till his See also:death he was professor of philosophy at Leipzig. He was a prolific writer on a See also:great variety of subjects, in all of which he excelled as a popularizer rather than as an See also:original thinker. In philosophy his method was psychological; he attempted to explain the Ego by examining the nature of its reflection upon the facts of consciousness. Being is known to us only through its presentation in consciousness; consciousness only in its relation to Being. Both Being and Consciousness, however, are immediately known to us, as also the relation existing between them. By this Transcendental See also:Synthesis he proposed to reconcile See also:Realism and See also:Idealism, and to destroy the traditional difficulty between transcendental, or pure, thought and " things in themselves." Apart from the See also:intrinsic value of his See also:work, it is admitted that it had the effect of promoting the study of philosophy and of stimulating freedom of thought in See also:religion and politics. His See also:principal See also:works are: Briefe caber den neuesten Idealismus (18o1); Versuch fiber See also:die Principien der philosophischen Erkenntniss (1801); Fundamentalphilosophie (1803); See also:System der theoretischen Philosophie (18o6–181o), System der praklischen Philosophie (1817–1819); Handbuch der Philosophie (182o; 3rd ed., 1828); Logik oder Denklehre (1827); Geschichte der Philos. alter Zeit (1815; 2nd ed., 1825); Allgemeines Handworterbuch der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1827–1834; 2nd ed., 1832–1838); Universal-philosophische Vorlesungen See also:fur Gebildete beiderlei Geschlechts. His work Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philos. See also:des XIX. Jahrh.

(1835–1837) contains interesting criticisms of See also:

Hegel and See also:Schelling. See also his autobiography, Meine Lebensreise (Leipzig, 2nd ed., 1840).

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