Hermann Lotze's Influence on Twentieth Century Philosophy

Download or read book Hermann Lotze's Influence on Twentieth Century Philosophy written by Nikolay Milkov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the 19th century, influencing practically all leading philosophical schools of the late 19th and the early 20th century: (i) the neo-Kantians; (ii) Brentano and his school of descriptive psychology; (iii) the British idealists; (iv) Husserl’s phenomenology; (v) Dilthey’s philosophy of life; (vi) Frege’s new logic; (vii) the early Cambridge analytic philosophy; (viii) William James’s pragmatism. The book first presents the main ideas of Hermann Lotze’s philosophy (Part I), and then traces his influence on the descriptive psychology of Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf (Part 2) and Cambridge analytic philosophy (Part 3). In addition, the book includes Bertrand Russell’s conspectus of J. E. McTaggart’s 1898 lectures on Lotze.