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by AntigoneRising on March 16th, 2007

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Who was Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and what were his basic beliefs?

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 16th, 2007

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    Wikipedia gives some good information on him eg
    Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (25 January 1743 - 10 March 1819), was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism. Instead of speculative reason, he advocated faith (or "belief" aka Glaube) and revelation (though he differed from the religious meaning in that he took this to be rational).

    On this basis he might be seen as the great-grandfather to present-day writers who criticize philosophy as relativistic and dangerous for religious faith.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Heinrich_Jacobi

    Here is something else about him:
    Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 1743–1819, German philosopher. Although educated for commerce, he early gave up business and became in 1770 a member of the council for the duchies of Berg and Jülich. A brilliant personality, he attracted to his home near Düsseldorf a notable literary and philosophic circle. His later years were spent in Holstein and in Munich, where he was appointed (1807) president of the newly founded Academy of Sciences. His collected works were published in 1812–25. Among them are Briefe über die Lehre des Spinoza (1785) and David Hume über den Glauben; oder, Idealismus und Realismus (1787). Jacobi criticized both Kant and Spinoza, arguing that philosophy cannot maintain distinct realms of existence and that it must be consistent and consider everything in the same cause and effect sequence. If this is done, however, then the originality and individuality of our experiences are lost. Jacobi's solution involved a unity and consistency based entirely on faith. He felt that even immediate sense perception is miraculous. Reason, then, must be restricted to its immediate material, and the ultimate reality is to be intuitively sensed.
    http://www.answers.com/topic/friedrich-heinrich-jacobi

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  • by jessikins on March 16th, 2007

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    try wikipedia.

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