Jakob Friedrich Fries
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| Born | 23 August 1773 Barby |
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10 August 1843 (aged 69) Jena |
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University of Leipzig University of Jena |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Post-Kantianism |
| Institutions | University of Jena |
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Metaphysics Psychology Logic |
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Empirical psychology as the basis of critical and transcendental philosophy |
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Jakob Friedrich Fries (German: [fʀiːs]; 23 August 1773 – 10 August 1843) was a German post-Kantianphilosopher. He was born in Barby (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) and died in Jena (present-day Thuringia, Germany).
Fries studied theology at the academy of the Moravian brethren at Niesky, and philosophy at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena. After travelling, in 1806 he became professor of philosophy and elementary mathematics at the University of Heidelberg.
Though the progress of his psychological thought compelled him to abandon the positive theology of the Moravians, he retained an appreciation of its spiritual or symbolic significance. His philosophical position with regard to his contemporaries had already been made clear in his critical work Reinhold, Fichte und Schelling (1803), and in the more systematic treatises System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft (1804) and Wissen, Glaube und Ahnung (1805).
Fries' most important treatise, the Neue oder anthropologische Kritik der Vernunft (2nd ed., 1828–1831), was an attempt to give a new foundation of psychological analysis to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In 1811 he published his System der Logik (ed. 1819 and 1837), and in 1814 Julius und Evagoras, a philosophical romance. He was also involved in public polemics, and in 1816 wrote Ueber die Gefährdung des Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen durch die Juden (On the Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and Character), advocating among other things a distinct sign on the dress of Jews to distinguish them from the general population, and encouraging their emigration from German lands. He blamed the Jews for the ascendant role of money in society and called for Judaism to be "extirpated root and branch" from German society.
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