Johan Jakob (or Jacob) Borelius (27 July 1823 – 1909) was an influential professor of

theoretical philosophy The modern division of philosophy into theoretical philosophy and practical philosophyImmanuel Kant, ''Lectures on Ethics'', Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 41 ("On Universal Practical Philosophy"). Original text: Immanuel Kant, ''Kant’s G ...

at the

University of Lund Lund University () is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially founded in 1666 on the ...

, SwedenCarl-Göran Heidegren. Positivism before Logical Positivism. In:
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism
', pp. 96–98 (Juha Manninen, Friedrich Stadler, eds) (Springer; 2009) from 1866 to 1898. He has been called "The Last Swedish

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

ian." Borelius was born in

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. He obtained his doctorate from

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in 1848, afterward becoming a teacher in

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, while he continued his studies under Christopher Jacob Boström. His overall philosophy is laid out in his work ''Metafysik'' (

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

), not published in full until after his death. Borelius is mentioned in a footnote of

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

' short story "Three Versions of Judas."

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1823 births 1909 deaths Swedish philosophers People from Skinnskatteberg Municipality {{Sweden-philosopher-stub