Heinrich Rickert

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Heinrich John Rickert (Template:IPAc-en; {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians.

LifeEdit

Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany (1894–1915) and Heidelberg (1915–1932), where he succeeded Windelband's professorship (and Husserl succeeded Rickert's professorship at Freiburg when it was vacated).

He died in Heidelberg, Germany.

PhilosophyEdit

He is known for his discussion of a qualitative distinction held to be made between historical and scientific facts. Contrary to philosophers like Nietzsche and Bergson, Rickert emphasized that values demand a distance from life, and that what Bergson, Dilthey or Simmel called "vital values" were not true values.Template:Citation needed

Rickert's philosophy was an important influence on the work of sociologist Max Weber. Weber is said to have borrowed much of his methodology, including the concept of the ideal type, from Rickert's work. Also, Martin Heidegger started out his academic career as Rickert's assistant, graduated with him and then wrote his habilitation thesis under Rickert.<ref>Sebastian Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Routledge 2015, p. 461.</ref>

Charles R. Bambach writes:

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Rickert, with Wilhelm Windelband, led the so-called Baden school of neo-Kantians.

WorksEdit

Zur Lehre von der Definition [On the Theory of Definition] (1888) (doctoral thesis). Center for Research libraries, crl.edu 2nd. ed., 1915. 3rd ed., 1929.
Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis: ein Beitrag zum Problem der philosophischen Transcendenz (1892). Google (UCal)
- 2nd ed., 1904: Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis: Einführung in die Transzendentalphilosophie. Google (UMich)
Template:Cite book Google (NYPL) 2nd ed., 1913.
- Template:In lang The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science (1986). (Tr. Guy Oakes.) Template:ISBN
Fichtes Atheismusstreit und die kantische Philosophie (1899). Google (UCal) IA (UToronto)
Kulturwissenschaft und Naturwissenschaft (1899). 6th/7th revised and expanded ed., 1926.
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"Geschichtsphilosophie" in Die Philosophie im Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1905). 2 volumes. Vol. 2, pp. 51–135
Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie: eine Einführung, 3rd ed., 1924. New ed.: Celtis Verlag, Berlin 2013, Template:ISBN
Wilhelm Windelband (1915).
Die Philosophie des Lebens: Darstellung und Kritik der philosophischen Modeströmungen unserer Zeit (1920). IA (UToronto) 2nd ed., 1922.
Allgemeine Grundlegung der Philosophie (1921). [System der Philosophie vol. 1]
Kant als Philosoph der modernen Kultur (1924).
Über die Welt der Erfahrung (1927).
Die Logik des Prädikats und das Problem der Ontologie (1930).
Die Heidelberger Tradition in der Deutschen Philosophie (1931).
Goethes Faust (1932).
Grundprobleme der Philosophie: Methodologie, Ontologie, Anthropologie (1934). Template:ISBN
Unmittelbarkeit und Sinndeutung (1939).