Edmund Pfleiderer (12 October 1842 in Stetten im Remstal (now a part of

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) – 3 April 1902 in

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) was a German philosopher and theologian. He entered the ministry (1864) and during the

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served as army chaplain, an experience described in hi
''Erlebnisse eines feldgeistlichen im kriege 1870/71''
(1890). He was afterwards appointed professor ordinarius of philosophy at

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(1873), and in 1878 he was elected to the philosophical chair at

. He published works on

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, empiricism and scepticism in

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's philosophy, modern pessimism,

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criticism, English philosophy,

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and many other subjects. The theologian

Otto Pfleiderer Otto Pfleiderer (; 1 September 1839 – 18 July 1908) was a German Protestant theologian. Through his writings and his lectures, he became known as one of the most influential representatives of liberal theology. Biography Pfleiderer was born at ...

was his older brother.

Selected writings

* ''Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz als Patriot, Staatsmann und Bildungsträger'', 1870 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as a patriot, statesman and educationalist. * ''Empirismus und Skepsis in Dav. Hume's Philosophie als abschliessender Zersetzung der englischen Erkenntnisslehre, Moral und Religionswissenschaft'', 1874 –

Empiricism In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along ...

and skepticism in David Hume's philosophy shown as the final decomposition of the English theory of knowledge, ethics and religious studies. * ''Kantischer Kritizismus und englische Philosophie eine Beleuchtung der deutsch-englischen Neu-Empirismus'', etc. 1881 – Kantian criticism and English philosophy, an illumination of German-English new empiricism. * ''Lotze's philosophische Weltanschauung nach ihren Grundzügen : zur Erinnerung an den Verstorbenen'', 1882 –

Hermann Lotze Rudolf Hermann Lotze (; ; 21 May 1817 – 1 July 1881) was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is governed by mechanical laws and relations, then de ...

's philosophical worldview, etc. * ''Arnold Geulinx als Hauptvertreter der okkasionalistischen Metaphysik und Ethik'' –

Arnold Geulincx Arnold Geulincx (; 31 January 1624 – November 1669), also known by his pseudonym Philaretus, was a Flemish philosopher, metaphysician, and logician. He was one of the followers of René Descartes who tried to work out more detailed versions of ...

as the main representative of occasionalistic metaphysics and ethics. * ''Die Philosophie des Heraklit von Ephesus im Lichte der Mysterienidee'', 1886 – The philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus in light of the idea of the Mysteries. * ''Sokrates und Plato'', 1896 –

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and

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. * ''Zur Frage der Kausalität; eine erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchung'', 1897 – On the question of causality; an epistemological investigation. * ''Augustine bekenntnisse, gekürzt und verdeutscht'', 1902 – Augustinian confessions.HathiTrust Digital Library
(Published works)

References

* 1842 births 1902 deaths People from Rems-Murr-Kreis People from the Kingdom of Württemberg 19th-century German philosophers 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the University of Tübingen {{Germany-philosopher-stub