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University of Hamburg
Overview
The University of Hamburg (German: Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System (Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen), the Hamburg Colonial Institute (Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut), and the Academic College (Akademisches Gymnasium). The main campus is located in the central district of Rotherbaum, with affiliated institutes and research centres distributed around the city-state. Seven Nobel Prize winners and one Wolf Prize winner are affiliated with UHH.
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Philosophies of jurisprudence are essential parts of the law teaching; and every one of the classic philosophers took a hand in writing a philosophy of Law and of the State. Moreover, in the theological faculties, which are also organic parts of state-controlled institutions, the theology and higher criticism of Protestant Germany have been developed, and developed also in close connection with philosophical…
John Dewey, German philosophy and politics
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For all the undisputed superiority of the German organization, the tactics of the unions were very much the same in Berlin and London. Their chief achievement was the system of tariff treaties. In the political field the difference was much greater and deeper.
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
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Morals were untaught except as a part of the training of the professed theologian. All this metaphysical and literary instruction was of no great service to social evolution, except so far as it developed the critical power; it had, however, a certain indirect influence on the constructive movement, especially on the development of Art. But its defects, both practical and theoretical, have been made more evident by…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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Philosophers who discussed University of Hamburg
- Leo Strauss
- Martin Buber
- Ernst Cassirer
- Hans Blumenberg
- Leo Löwenthal
- Jakob Johann von Uexküll
- Richard Milton Martin
- Louis Pojman
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- Leo Strauss
- Nobel Prize
- World War II
- Weimar Republic
- Protests of 1968
- World War I
- Western esotericism
- Ernst Cassirer
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy and economics.