Long 19th c. · 1776–1841
Who influenced Johann Friedrich Herbart?
Influences and legacy
Realist psychologist who turned Kant's categories into a science of mental mechanics.
Johann Friedrich Herbart was influenced by Immanuel Kant, and went on to influence Rudolf Hermann Lotze and Wilhelm Wundt. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Johann Friedrich Herbart?
Johann Friedrich Herbart was a German philosopher and psychologist who founded pedagogy as an academic discipline; his theory of education is known as Herbartianism.
Among the philosophers after Kant he is now remembered mainly as Hegel's sharpest opposite, especially in aesthetics.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Johann Friedrich Herbart?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
Who did Johann Friedrich Herbart influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Johann Friedrich Herbart.
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze 1817–1881
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832–1920
The line of teachers behind Johann Friedrich Herbart
The longest documented line of influence ending at Johann Friedrich Herbart runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
Two steps away from Johann Friedrich Herbart
Indirect influences
- Through Immanuel Kant: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The second generation
- Through Rudolf Hermann Lotze: Edmund Husserl
Contemporaries of Johann Friedrich Herbart
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Johann Friedrich Herbart, with no direct line between them.
- F. W. J. Schelling 1775–1854
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- Bernard Bolzano 1781–1848
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768–1834
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814
Johann Friedrich Herbart by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 82
- Thinkers downstream
- 19
- Wikipedia languages
- 47 — #37 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Who influenced Johann Friedrich Herbart?
- Immanuel Kant.
- Who did Johann Friedrich Herbart influence?
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze and Wilhelm Wundt.
- When did Johann Friedrich Herbart live?
- 1776–1841. The map files Johann Friedrich Herbart under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Johann Friedrich Herbart card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Johann Friedrich Herbart in 47 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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