Julius Bahnsen
Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology (1867) and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World (1880/82).
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- Born in
- Tønder
- Educated at
- University of TübingenKiel University
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Trending topics shown first"I went away conscious that I had seen not only a genius-of ideas, but also a character of the most genuine sublimity . . I felt myself . . . transported into a new existence. Francis of Assisi and the…"
"The conclusion of the Realdialektik is: 'It does not suffice' either for complete annihilation or for full satisfaction. The child of Gda is born between heaven and hell, now ready to camp with the li…"
"no asylum for lawless vagabonds , no free playground granted by the master of the world in his good humor to each of these kobolds, where they might have the privilege of moving about and of enjoying …"
"And if my friends refused to listen to me, then the walls had to hear me or the stones in the fields and the trees of the forests."
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1830
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