Long 19th c. · 1817–1881
Who influenced Rudolf Hermann Lotze?
Influences and legacy
Mediating idealist of value and mechanism, bridge from German idealism to phenomenology.
Rudolf Hermann Lotze was influenced by Johann Friedrich Herbart, and went on to influence Edmund Husserl. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Rudolf Hermann Lotze?
Rudolf Hermann Lotze was a German philosopher and logician who also held a medical degree and knew biology well. His medical studies were pioneering works of scientific psychology.
He argued that if the physical world runs on mechanical laws, the development of the universe can be understood as the working of a world mind.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Rudolf Hermann Lotze?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776–1841
Who did Rudolf Hermann Lotze influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Rudolf Hermann Lotze.
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
The line of teachers behind Rudolf Hermann Lotze
The longest documented line of influence ending at Rudolf Hermann Lotze runs 21 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
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze
Two steps away from Rudolf Hermann Lotze
Indirect influences
- Through Johann Friedrich Herbart: Immanuel Kant
The second generation
Contemporaries of Rudolf Hermann Lotze
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Rudolf Hermann Lotze, with no direct line between them.
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Mikhail Bakunin 1814–1876
- Herbert Spencer 1820–1903
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
- Alexander Herzen 1812–1870
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
Rudolf Hermann Lotze by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 83
- Thinkers downstream
- 17
- Wikipedia languages
- 33 — #39 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Rudolf Hermann Lotze
- Who influenced Rudolf Hermann Lotze?
- Johann Friedrich Herbart.
- Who did Rudolf Hermann Lotze influence?
- Edmund Husserl.
- When did Rudolf Hermann Lotze live?
- 1817–1881. The map files Rudolf Hermann Lotze under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Rudolf Hermann Lotze card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Rudolf Hermann Lotze in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
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- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855