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Early modern · 1743–1819

Who influenced Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi?

Influences

Nihilism's first reporter: every rational system ends in fatalism or atheism.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was influenced by Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi?

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi did much to popularise the concept of nihilism, which he treated as the inevitable outcome of Enlightenment thought and of the systems of Spinoza, Kant, Fichte and Schelling. Against speculative reason he set faith and revelation.

He was a writer and a fixture of society, briefly a friend of Goethe, and the younger brother of the poet Johann Georg Jacobi.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

The longest documented line of influence ending at Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Moses Mendelssohn
  21. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

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Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, with no direct line between them.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
77
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
34 — #35 of 36 among early modern philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Who influenced Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi?
Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Who did Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
When did Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi live?
1743–1819. The map files Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi under the early modern period.
How rare is the Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in 34 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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