Philosopher
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Overview
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism, denigrating it as the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
Jacobi advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or "belief") and Offenbarung (revelation) instead of speculative reason. According to one view, Jacobi can be seen to have anticipated present-day writers who criticize secular philosophy as relativistic and dangerous for religious faith. His aloofness from the Sturm and Drang movement was the basis of a brief friendship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
He was the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi and the father of the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi.
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Philosophers who discussed Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Immanuel Kant
- Victor Cousin
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Baruch Spinoza
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Otto Friedrich Bollnow
Ideas Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi discusses
- Faith
- French Revolution
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Geneva
- Frederick C. Beiser
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Western philosophy
- German Confederation
- Immanuel Kant
- Atheism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jesuits
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Jakob Friedrich Fries
- Adam Smith
- Metaphysics
- Munich
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 19th-century philosophy
- Nihilism
- German idealism
- Naturphilosophie
- Pantheism
Place in the tradition
Part of Continental philosophy.
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