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He began to study philosophy early on, and soon became known as a profound Kant scholar. He was educated at the Gymnasium at Dessau, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, and at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Halle.
Jul 15, 2010 · 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.
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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Cohen was born a Jew, and that he steadfastly remained for his entire life, rejecting any thought of conversion, even when it seemed crucial for his academic career. The interest in Jewish culture and religion began early and it persisted despite his decision not to pursue a rabbinical career; indeed, it only intensified with age, so that the ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Cohen started his philosophical career as an interpreter of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and he slowly developed his own system of Neo-Kantianism in three major works: Logik der Reinen Erkenntnis (The Logic of Pure Perception), Ethik des Reinen Willens (The Ethics of the Pure Will), and Ä sthetik des Reinen Gefühls (The Esthetics of Pure ...
Oct 4, 2018 · This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), the only one to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. It pays special attention to Cohen’s intellectual development, to its breaks and continuities.
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Hermann Cohen (July 4, 1842 - April 4, 1918) was a German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism. He was known for his commentaries on Kant, and is considered an important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century.
