Kuno Fischer

Kuno Fischer studied at Leipzig University and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Heidelberg. Employment is recorded with Heidelberg University and University of Jena. Positions recorded include professor and rector of the University of Jena.

• Region — Western philosophy • Era — 19th-century philosophy • Name — Kuno Fischer • Birth Name — Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer • Born — 23 July 1824 • Birthplace — Sandewalde near Guhrau, Silesia, Prussia, German Confederation • Died — 5 July 1907 • Place of death — Heidelberg, Baden, German Empire • Education — University of Leipzig University of Halle (PhD, 1847) • Institutions — Heidelberg University University of Jena • School Tradition — Hegelianism (early) Neo-Kantianism (late) • Main Interests — Metaphysics, history of philosophy • Notable Ideas — The empiricism–rationalism distinction • Thesis Title — De Parmenide Platonico (On Plato's Parmenides) • Thesis Url — https: archive.org/details/deparmenideplat00fiscgoog • Thesis Year — 1847 • Academic Advisors — J. E. Erdmann Julius Schaller • Doctoral Students — Edmund Hardy • Notable Students — Wilhelm Dilthey Richard Falckenberg Gottlob Frege Otto Liebmann Johannes Volkelt Wilhelm Windelband • Illustration — Portrait of Fischer by Caspar Ritter (1898)

• Illustration — His grave in Heidelberg After studying philosophy at Leipzig and Halle, he became a Privatdozent at Heidelberg in 1850. The Baden government in 1853 laid an embargo on his teaching owing to his liberal ideas, but the effect of this was to rouse considerable sympathy for his views, and in 1856 he obtained a professorship at Jena, where he soon acquired great influence by the dignity of his personal character. In 1872, on Eduard Zeller's move to Berlin, Fischer succeeded him as professor of philosophy and the history of modern German literature at Heidelberg. He was a brilliant lecturer and possessed a remarkable gift for clear exposition. His fame rests primarily on his work as a historian and commentator of philosophy. As far as his philosophical views were concerned, he was, generally speaking, a follower of the Hegelian school. His writings in this direction, especially his interpretation of Kant, involved him in a quarrel with F. A. Trendelenburg, professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin, and his followers. In 1860, Fischer's Kants Leben und die Grundlagen seiner Lehre (Kant's life and the foundations of his doctrine) lent the first real impulse to the so-called "return to Kant". In honor of his 80th birthday, celebrated in 1904, Otto Liebmann, Wilhelm Wundt, Theodor Lipps and others published Die Philosophie im Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift für Kuno Fischer (Heidelberg, 1907).

• Moderne Sophisten (Leipziger Revue, 1847) • De Parmenide Platonico. Stuttgart (thesis, 1847, online). • Diotima. Die Idee des Schönen (Diotima, the idea of the beautiful; Pforzheim, 1849) (online) • System der Logik und Metaphysik oder Wissenschaftslehre (System of logic and metaphysics, or doctrine of knowledge; 1852) (online) • Das Interdict meiner Vorlesungen (The prohibition of my lectures; Mannheim, 1854) • 1854: Die Apologie meiner Lehre nebst Replik auf die „Abfertigung“ des Herrn Schenkel (online) • Geschichte der neuern Philosophie (History of modern philosophy; 6 vols., Stuttgart-Mannheim-Heidelberg, 1854–77; new edition, Heidelberg, 1897–1901) This is considered by some to be his greatest work. It is written in the form of monographs on Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Schelling and other great philosophers down to Schopenhauer: • erster Band: Descartes und seine Schule (1. Teil online, 2. Teil online) • zweiter Band: Leibniz und seine Schule (online) • dritter Band: Immanuel Kant und seine Lehre (online) • vierter Band: Kant's System der reinen Vernunft (online: 2. Aufl. 1869, 3. neu bearb. Aufl. 1882, 4. ed. 1899) • fünfter Band: Fichte und seine Vorgänger (online) • achter Band: Hegels Leben, Werke und Lehre (online: part 1 (1901), part 2 (1901)) • neunter Band: Schopenhauers Leben, Werke und Lehre (online (Jubiläumsausgabe 1898)) • Franz Baco von Verona (Leipzig, 1856 (2nd edition 1875); translated into English by J. Oxenford, London, 1857) • Schiller als Philosoph (Frankfurt am Main, 1858; 2nd ed. 1891-92) • Kants Leben und die Grundlagen seiner Lehre (Mannheim, 1860) • Akademische Reden: J. G. Fichte; Die beiden Kantischen Schulen in Jena (The two schools of Kant in Jena; Stuttgart, 1862) • Lessings “Nathan der Weise” (Stuttgart, 1864; translated into English by Ellen Frothingham, New York, 1868) • Baruch Spinozas Leben und Charakter (Heidelberg, 1865; translated into English by F. Schmidt, Edinburgh, 1882) • System der reinen Vernunft auf Grund der Vernunftkritik (1866) • Shakespeares Charakterentwickelung Richards III (Character development of Shakespeare's Richard III; Heidelberg, 1868) • Über die Entstehung und die Entwickelungsformen des Witzes (The origins and modes of development of wit; Heidelberg, 1871) • Schellings Leben, Werke und Lehre (Heidelberg, [1872] - taken from the Fourth Edition, issued in monographic series, Geschichte der Neuern Philosophie von Kudo Fischer, published in Heidelberg, 1923 - on the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling) • Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie (Munich, 1883; translated into English by W. S. Hough, London 1888) • Goethe-Schriften (8 vols., Heidelberg, 1888–96) • Kleine Schriften (Heidelberg, 1888–98) • Schiller-Schriften (2 vols., Heidelberg, 1891) • Philosophische Schriften (3 parts, Heidelberg, 1891–92) • Hegels Leben und Werke (Heidelberg, 1911) Other translations of his works are: • A Commentary of Kant's "Critic of Pure Reason" (trans. by J. P. Mahaffy, London-Dublin, 1866; online) • Descartes and his School (trans. by John P. Gordy, New York, 1887)

He was employed by Heidelberg University and University of Jena. Recorded positions include professor and rector of the University of Jena. He belonged to Academy of Science for Public Utility, Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. He worked at Heidelberg.