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REINHOLD, KARL LEONHARD (1758-1823)

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REINHOLD, KARL LEONHARD (1758-1823) , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Vienna. At the See also:age of fourteen he entered the Jesuit See also:college of St See also:Anna, on the See also:dissolution of which (1774) he joined a similar college of the See also:order of St See also:Barnabas. Finding himself out of sympathy with monastic See also:life, he fled in 1783 to See also:North See also:Germany, and settled in See also:Weimar, where he became See also:Wieland's collaborateur on the German See also:Mercury, and eventually his son-in-See also:law. In the German Mercury he published, in the years 1786—87, his Briefe fiber See also:die Kantische Philosophic, which were most important in making See also:Kant known to a wider circle of readers. As a result of the Letters, Reinhold received a See also:call to the university of See also:Jena, where he taught from 1787 to 1794. In 1789 he published his See also:chief See also:work, the Versuch einer neuen Theorie See also:des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermogens, in which he attempted to simplify the Kantian theory and make it more of a unity. In 1794 he accepted a call to Kid, where he taught till his See also:death in 1823, but his See also:independent activity was at an end. In later life he was powerfully influenced by See also:Fichte, and subsequently, on grounds of religious feeling, by See also:Jacobi and See also:Bardili. His See also:historical importance belongs entirely to his earlier activity. The development of the Kantian standpoint contained in the " New Theory of Human Understanding " (1789), and in the Fundament des philosophischen Wissens (1791), was called by its author Elementarphilosophie. " Reinhold See also:lays greater emphasis than Kant upon the unity and activity of consciousness. The principle of consciousness tells us that every See also:idea is related both to an See also:object and a subject, and ie partly to be distinguished, partly See also:united to both.

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form cannot produce See also:matter nor subject object, we are forced to assume a thin¢-in-itself. But this is a notion which is self-contradictory if consciousness be essentially a See also:relating activity. There is there- fort something which must be thought and yet cannot be thought" (See also:Hoffding, See also:History of See also:Modern See also:Philosophy, Eng. trans., vol. ii.). See R. Keil, Wieland and Reinhold (2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 1890) ; J. E. See also:Erdmann, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie (See also:Berlin, 1866) ; histories of philosophy by R. Folckenberg and W. Windelband.

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