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Born in 1864, one of three brothers and the son of Ferdinand Schiller (a Calcutta merchant), Schiller's family home was in Switzerland. Schiller grew up in Rugby. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, and graduated in the first class of Literae Humaniores, winning later the Taylorian scholarship for German in 1887.
Apr 21, 2017 · Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) is best known for his immense influence on German literature. In his relatively short life, he authored an extraordinary series of dramas, including The Robbers, Maria Stuart, and the trilogy Wallenstein.
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864-1937) was a German-British philosopher. His philosophy is often aligned with the pragmatism of William James, though Schiller himself referred to it as “humanism.”
Examining Schiller’s Kantianism and the concepts of religious humanism, autonomy, providence, immanence and transcendence, we arrive at the general conclusion that he was among the first humanists in the German tradition to remove the religious dimension of ethics.
Schiller defined it as an “ethical” humanism; thus ethics was seen as the highest aspiration of humans, who by making reality have, as Peirce noted, a part in the creation. In other words, Schiller viewed pragmatism as a part of a larger whole—namely, humanism.
The British philosopher F. C. S. Schiller (1864–1937) was a leading pragmatist in the early twentieth century. His critiques of formal logic and his attempts to construct a humanist logic, derived from an anti-foundationalist humanism, are recognized as lasting philosophical achievements.
May 5, 2015 · Schiller and the Growth of Humanism. Intellectual History Review: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 93-101. Skip to Main Content. ... Taylor and Francis Group X Twitter page.
