Erich Rothacker (12 March 1888 – 11 August 1965) was a

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philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, a leading exponent of

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. Rothacker's first major work, ''Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften'' (Logic of the Human Sciences, 1920), presents the view that actual historical individuals, whose cognitive equipment is partially created by a specific cultural community while at the same time constantly modifying it, are the elements that constitute the subject of knowledge, rather than a timeless universal entity as it is represented by Descartes or Locke.

Works

* ''Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften'' (1920) * ''Logik und Systematik der Geisteswissenschaften'' (''Logic of the Human Sciences'', 1920) * ''Die Schichten der Persönlichkeit'', 1938 * ''Mensch und Geschichte'', 1944 * ''Probleme der Kulturanthropologie'' (''Problems of the Anthropology of Culture'', 1948)

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* * 20th-century German philosophers 1888 births People from Pforzheim 1965 deaths German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub