Eduard von Hartmann

Eduard von Hartmann
Von Hartmann in 1885
Born
Karl Robert Eduard Hartmann

(1842-02-23)23 February 1842
Died5 June 1906(1906-06-05) (aged 64)
Education
Notable workPhilosophy of the Unconscious (1869)
Spouses
(m. 1872; died 1877)
Alma Lorenz
(m. 1878)
Children6
FamilyRobert von Hartmann (father)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (23 February 1842 – 5 June 1906) was a German philosopher, independent scholar and author of Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). His notable ideas include the theory of the Unconscious and a pessimistic interpretation of the "best of all possible worlds" concept in metaphysics.

  1. ^ Peter Howarth, British Poetry in the Age of Modernism, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 163.
  2. ^ Beiser, Frederick C., Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 147.
  3. ^ Beiser, Frederick C., Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 129.
  4. ^ Jung, C. G. ([1959] 1969). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, Volume 9, Part 1, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01833-2, par. 259: "Although various philosophers, among them Leibniz, Kant, and Schelling, had already pointed very clearly to the problem of the dark side of the psyche, it was a physician who felt impelled, from his scientific and medical experience, to point to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche. This was C. G. Carus, the authority whom Eduard von Hartmann followed."