Nicolai Hartmann | |
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Born |
Riga, Livonia Governorate, Russian Empire |
20 February 1882
Died | 9 October 1950 Göttingen, West Germany |
(aged 68)
Alma mater |
University of Tartu Saint Petersburg Imperial University University of Marburg |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | German philosophy |
School |
Neo-Kantianism (early) Realist phenomenology (late) Critical realism (late) |
Main interests
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Ontology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics |
Notable ideas
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Strata of Being (Seinsschichten), neue Ontologie, categorial novum |
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Nicolai Hartmann (German: [ˈhaɐ̯tman]; 20 February 1882 – 9 October 1950) was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth century metaphysicians.
Hartmann was born of German descent in Riga, which was then the capital of the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire, and which is now in Latvia. He was the son of the engineer Carl August Hartmann and his wife Helene, born Hackmann. He attended from 1897, the German-language high school in Saint Petersburg. In the years 1902–1903 he studied Medicine at the University of Tartu (then Jurjev), and 1903–1905 classical philology and philosophy at the Saint Petersburg Imperial University with his friend Vasily Sesemann. In 1905 he went to the University of Marburg, where he studied with the neo-Kantians Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. In Marburg began a lifelong friendship with Heinz Heimsoeth. In 1907 he received his doctorate with the thesis Das Seinsproblem in der griechischen Philosophie vor Plato (The Problem of Being in Greek Philosophy Before Plato). In 1909 he published the book Platos Logik des Seins (The Logic of Being in Plato). The same year he completed his habilitation on Proclus: Des Proklus Diadochus philosophische Anfangsgründe der Mathematik (Proclus Diadochus' Philosophical Elements of Mathematics).