Hermann Cohen

Hermann Cohen
Born4 July 1842[2]
Died4 April 1918(1918-04-04) (aged 75)
NationalityGerman
EducationJewish Theological Seminary of Breslau
University of Breslau
University of Berlin
University of Halle
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolNeo-Kantianism (Marburg School)
InstitutionsUniversity of Marburg
ThesisDie Systematischen Begriffe in Kants Vorkritischen Schriften Nach Ihrem Verhältniss Zum Kritischen Idealismus (The Systematic Terms in Kant's Pre-critical Writings According to Their Relationship to Critical Idealism) (1873)
Doctoral studentsPaul Natorp[1]
Other notable studentsErnst Cassirer
Nicolai Hartmann
Franz Rosenzweig
Main interests
Ethics
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Lithograph by Karl Doerbecker

Hermann Cohen (4 July 1842 – 4 April 1918) was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century".[3]

  1. ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "Hermann Cohen"
  2. ^ Poma, A. (2007). Hermann Cohen: Judaism and Critical Idealism. In M. Morgan & P. Gordon (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Religion, pp. 80–101). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521813123.005
  3. ^ Jewish Virtual Library, Hermann Cohen