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PREL, KARL, FREIHERR VON (1839–1899)

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PREL, KARL, FREIHERR VON (1839–1899) , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Landshut on the 3rd of See also:April 1839. After studying at the university of See also:Munich he served in the Bavarian See also:army from 1859 to 1872, when he retired with the See also:rank of See also:captain. He then gave himself up to philosophical See also:work, especially in connexion with the phenomena of See also:hypnotism and occultism from the See also:modern psychological standpoint. He attempted to deduce the existence of spirit, apart from, and yet entering from See also:time to time into connexion with, the phenomena of the senses, by an examination of the relation between the ego of thought and the See also:age of sensible experience as understood by See also:Kant. In 1868 he received the degree of See also:doctor from the university of See also:Tubingen in recognition of a See also:treatise on the See also:psychology of Dreams (Oneirokritikon. Der Traum vom Standpunkt See also:des transcendentalen Idealismus). Subsequently, he published numerous See also:works on various psycho-logical and scientific subiects, of which the more important are: Der gesunde Menschenverstand vor den Problemen der Wissenschaft (1872); Der Kampf urns Dasein am See also:Himmel (1874), republished in 1882 under the See also:title Entwickelungsgeschichte des Weltalls; See also:Die Planetenbewohner and die Nebularhypothese (1880) ; Die Philosophie der Mystik (1885); Justinus See also:Kerner and die Seherin von Prevorst (1886); Die monistische Seelenlehre (1888); Die Mystik der See also:alien Griechen (1888) ; Kants mystische Weltanschauung (1889); Studien aus dem Gebiete der Geheimwissenschaften (1890); Der Spiritismus (1893); Die Entdeckung der Seele durch die Geheimwissenschaften (1894–1895). In Der Kampf urns Dasein am Himmel von Prel endeavoured to apply the Darwinian See also:doctrine of organic See also:evolution not only to the See also:sphere of consciousness but also even more widely as the philosophical principle of the See also:world. He was one of a large number of German thinkers who during the latter See also:half of the 19th See also:century endeavoured to treat the mind as a mechanism. He died on the 4th of See also:August 1899. See EvoLuTIox; in See also:Philosophy.

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