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PLANCK, KARL CHRISTIAN (1819-188o)

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PLANCK, KARL See also:CHRISTIAN (1819-188o) , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 17th of See also:January 1819. He studied at See also:Tubingen, where he became See also:doctor of See also:philosophy in 184o and Privatdozent in 1848. During this See also:period the See also:influence of Reiff led him to oppose the dominant Hegelianism of the See also:time. In 1850—1851 he published his See also:great See also:book, See also:Die Weltalter, in which he See also:developed a See also:complete See also:original See also:system of philosophy, based on the realistic view that thought should proceed from nature to the highest forms of existence in the spiritual See also:life. Not only did Planck oppose the See also:idealism of his confreres; his views were, in another aspect, directly antagonistic to the Darwinian theory of descent, which he specifically attacked in Wahrheit and Flachheit See also:des Darwinismus (See also:Nordlingen, 1872). The natural consequence of this individuality of See also:opinion was that his books were practically disregarded, and Planck was deeply incensed. The See also:ill success of Die Weltalter nerved him to new efforts, and he repeated his views in Katechismus des Rechts (1852), Grundlinen einer Wissenschaft der Natur (1864), Seele and Geist (1871), and numerous other books, which, however, met with no better See also:fate. In the meantime he See also:left Tubingen for See also:Ulm, whence he came finally to the See also:seminary of Maulbronn. He died on the 7th of See also:June 188o in an See also:asylum after a See also:short period of See also:nervous prostration. After his See also:death a See also:summary of his See also:work came into the hands of K. Kostlin (author of See also:Aesthetics, 1869), who published it in 1881 under the See also:title T estament einesDeutschen, Philosophie der Natur and der Menschheit. Planck's views were elaborately developed, but his method of exposition told heavily against their See also:acceptance.

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Messiah of the German See also:people. Beside the See also:works above quoted, he wrote System des reinen Idealismus (1851); Anthropologie and Psychologie auf naturwissenschaftlicher Grundlage (1874); a See also:political See also:treatise, See also:Bismarck : Sliddeutschland and der deutsche Nationalstaat (1872); and Logisches Causalgesetz and natiirliche Zweckmassigkeit (1874). See Umfrid, Karl Planck, dessen Werke and Wirken (Tubingen, 1881) ; and See also:Schmidt, Das Lebensideal Karl Christian Plancks," in the Vortrage der philosophischen Gesellschaft (See also:Berlin, 1896).

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