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Jacobi advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or "belief") and revelation instead of speculative reason. In this sense, Jacobi can be seen to have anticipated present-day writers who criticize secular philosophy as relativistic and dangerous for religious faith.
Feb 17, 1995 · This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later pa.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- February 17, 1995
Dec 6, 2001 · Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (b. 1743, d. 1819) was a critic of both modern philosophy and its offspring (the rationalism of German late Enlightenment), of Kant’s transcendental idealism, of Fichte’s systematic philosophy, and eventually of Schelling’s idealism.
- George di Giovanni, Paolo Livieri
- 2001
Dec 6, 2001 · Polemicist, socialite, and literary figure, Friedrich Jacobi (b. 1743, d. 1819) was an outspoken critic, first of the rationalism of German late Enlightenment philosophy, then of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, especially in the form that the early Fichte gave to it, and finally of the Romantic Idealism of the late Schelling.
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (born Jan. 25, 1743, Düsseldorf, duchy of Berg [Germany]—died March 10, 1819, Munich, Bavaria) was a German philosopher, major exponent of the philosophy of feeling (Gefühlsphilosophie) and a prominent critic of rationalism, especially as espoused by Benedict de Spinoza.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 18, 2018 · Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, a key figure in the reception of Kant’s critical philosophy, has long been regarded as a critic of the Enlightenment, who argued that philosophical reflection leads to a form of nihilism and advocated the idea that all human knowledge “derives from revelation and faith.”
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Dec 16, 2020 · In his open letter to Fichte dated 1799, Jacobi gave the final expression to his famous and controversial claim regarding the identity of philosophy and nihilism. In this chapter, Livieri shows Jacobi’s equation between the system of reason and the annihilation...
