Long 19th c. · 1768–1834
Who influenced Friedrich Schleiermacher?
Influences and legacy
Father of modern hermeneutics and theology: religion is the feeling of absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher was influenced by Immanuel Kant, and went on to influence Martin Heidegger. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Friedrich Schleiermacher?
Friedrich Schleiermacher, a German Reformed theologian, pastor and philosopher, tried to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity. His work helped shape biblical higher criticism and lies at the base of modern hermeneutics.
He is often called the father of modern liberal theology, and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth was in many ways a reaction against him. In philosophy he was a leading figure of German Romanticism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Friedrich Schleiermacher?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
Who did Friedrich Schleiermacher influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Friedrich Schleiermacher.
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
The line of teachers behind Friedrich Schleiermacher
The longest documented line of influence ending at Friedrich Schleiermacher 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
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
Two steps away from Friedrich Schleiermacher
Indirect influences
- Through Immanuel Kant: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The second generation
Contemporaries of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Friedrich Schleiermacher, with no direct line between them.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814
- F. W. J. Schelling 1775–1854
- Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776–1841
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797
- Bernard Bolzano 1781–1848
Friedrich Schleiermacher by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 82
- Thinkers downstream
- 12
- Wikipedia languages
- 52 — #34 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- German classical: Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, F. W. J. Schelling, Georg W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher
Questions about Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Who influenced Friedrich Schleiermacher?
- Immanuel Kant.
- Who did Friedrich Schleiermacher influence?
- Martin Heidegger.
- When did Friedrich Schleiermacher live?
- 1768–1834. The map files Friedrich Schleiermacher under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Friedrich Schleiermacher card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Friedrich Schleiermacher in 52 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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