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History Of Philosophy: His History of Ionian Philosophy(1821) ; History of the Pythagorean Philosophy (1826), and Notes on the Philosophy of the Megarean School in the Rheinisches Museum, are models of historical investigation on the principles of Schleiermacher. His historical masterpiece is the History of Philosophy (1829-53), which deals with general history up to the time of Kant. It was supplemented by a Review of the History of German Philosophy from the Time of Kant (1853).
He qualified himself at Berlin as a university teacher, and from 1824 held an extraordinary professorship in that city until he accepted a call to Kiel in 1833. In 1837 he moved to Gottingen, where he continued to occupy the university chair of philosophy until his death. Ritter's best works belong to the history of philosophy, his first in this department being an investigation into the doctrines of Em-pedocles in Wolf's Literarische Analekten(1820).
The principles of rationalism and subjectivism, here declared to be the fundamental and general characteristics of German thought, indeed dominate a significant part of the history of German philosophy in its themes and systems. Rationalism, that is, the constant endeavor of German thought to grasp and formulate the rational categories of the human intellect, and the concept of "progressive development" (Entwicklung) derived from this rationalistic principle, are present at the origins of German philosophy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. |
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