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Hermann Cohen (4 July 1842 – 4 April 1918) was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century".
Hermann Cohen was Germany’s great philosopher of Judaism and champion of Kantian ethics at the turn of the twentieth century. He drew powerful affinities between Kant’s moral philosophy and Jewish ethics, emphasizing how both point towards perpetual peace.
Hermann Cohen (born July 4, 1842, Coswig, Anhalt—died April 4, 1918, Berlin) was a German-Jewish philosopher and founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantian philosophy, which emphasized “pure” thought and ethics rather than metaphysics.
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In Bertrand Russell’s 1903 The Principles of Mathematics, he offers an apparently devastating criticism of The Principle of the Infinitesimal Method and Its History (PIM) by the neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen.
- Scott Edgar
- 2020
Jewish Universalisms analyzes how two major figures, Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, dealt with the perceived tension between the universal values characteristic of the Enlightenment and aspects of Judaism often depicted as particularistic and parochial.
Jul 15, 2010 · Hermann Cohen. Hermann Cohen (b. 1842, d. 1918), more than any other single figure, is responsible for founding the orthodox neo-Kantianism that dominated academic philosophy in Germany from the 1870s until the end of the First World War.
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Hermann Cohen was the last great thinker in the German idealist tradition. He was the final spokesman for the chief intellectual value of this tradition: the sovereignty of reason, the preeminence of reason not only in the spheres of epistemology and metaphysics, but also in those of ethics, politics, and religion.
