Erich Adickes - German philosopher who wrote many important works on Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

 (1724-1804) and the Kantian philosophy. Adickes was a critical empiricist (moderate Kantian).
Adickes was born in Lesum (now par of Bremen

Bremen

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), and died in Tübingen where he had been professor of philosophy since 1904. He studied theology, philosophy, and history at Tübingen, then at Berlin under Friedrich Paulsen

Friedrich Paulsen

Friedrich Paulsen was a German philosopher and educator.-Biography:He was born at Langenhorn and educated at Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin, where he became extraordinary professor of philosophy and pedagogy in 1878...

 (1846-1908), graduating Dr. Phil. with a dissertation titled Kants Systematik als systembildender Factor (Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1887). Habilitating at Kiel in 1895, he became a full professor there in 1898. In 1902 he moved to Münster as full professor, then in 1904 succeeded Christoph von Sigwart

Christoph von Sigwart

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 (1830-1904) at Tübingen.
Adickes was intimately familiar with Kant’s Nachlass

Nachlass

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, and exhibited extraordinary scholarship in his contributions to vols. 14-19 of Kant's gesammelte Schriften.Another one of Adickes' important works is titled German Kantian Bibliography - Writings by and on Kant which have appeared in Germany up to the end of 1887 (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1896) ( Note: This bibliography closes with the year 1804, the date of Kant's death, and does not extend to 1887 as stated in the title of the work. )

An opponent of Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

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 (1834-1919), Adickes in his Kant contra Haeckel: Erkenntnistheorie gegen naturwissenschaftlichen Dogmatismus (Berlin: Reuther & Reichard, 1901) wrote: "I have no more belief than he in a personal extra-mundane God, a creation of the world by him, or an immaterial soul separated from the body."

Adickes is also known for introducing, in 1907, his concept of Four World-Views: Dogmatic (or Doctrinaire), Agnostic (or skeptical), Traditional, and Innovative, which would help shape personality

Personality type

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theory in the 20th century.