[Revised entry by David Sullivan on November 12, 2024.
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Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817 – 1881) mediated the transition from the exuberance of German idealism, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the sober, scholarly and scientific ethos that came to prevail in the second half. In Lotze’s work, he adapted the notion of “chief” or defining problems in the philosophical sub-disciplines, inherited from Herbart, and brought opposing approaches to bear on them, preparing the way for the modern textbook. A professor in a changing situation, he mostly restricted…
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