Ernst Platner | |
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 Portrait by Anton Graff | |
| Born | 11 June 1744 |
| Died | 27 December 1818 Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony |
| Education | University of Leipzig (M.D., 1767) |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Rationalism[1] |
Main interests | History of philosophy, medicine |
Notable ideas | The Unconscious Pragmatic history Psychosomatic medicine |
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Ernst Platner (/ˈplɑːtnər/; German: [ˈplatnɐ]; 11 June 1744 – 27 December 1818) was a German anthropologist, physician and Rationalist[1] philosopher, born in Leipzig. He was the father of painter Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855).
- ^ a b Frederick Beiser, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 214.
- ^ John H. Zammito, Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 250.