Educated at the Zittau gymnasium and the University of Leipzig, Lotze was a brilliant student and excelled in philosophy, receiving his doctorate in 1838. That same year he obtained a second doctorate in medicine. In 1841, he published Metaphysik, which expounded his philosophical system. Then, in 1843, he published Logik. He moved to Gottingen and was appointed to the chair of philosophy, a position previously held by Johann Friedrich Hebart. Lotze became one of the pre-eminent figures in German academic philosophy between the period of Absolute Idealism and proper Neo-Kantianism. He continued at Gottingen until the last year of his life when he moved to take the chair at Berlin University. His other works include Medicinsche Psychologie oder Physilogie der Seele (1852), Mikrokosmus (3 vols. 1856-1864) and Streitschriften (1857). His 'Grundzuge' works, which were basically his edited lectures, were translated into English as Outlines of Philosophy in six volumes (1884-1887) and System of Philosophy which combined his Metaphysik and Logik. Mikrocosmus was also translated (1885-88). |
