Heinrich Rickert

Heinrich Rickert
Born
Heinrich John Rickert

(1863-05-25)25 May 1863
Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland)
Died25 July 1936(1936-07-25) (aged 73)
NationalityGerman
EducationUniversity of Berlin
University of Strasbourg (PhD, 1888)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolNeo-Kantianism (Baden school)
InstitutionsUniversity of Freiburg (1894–1915)
Heidelberg (1915–1932)
ThesisZur Lehre von der Definition (On the Theory of Definition) (1888)
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Windelband
Doctoral studentsBruno Bauch
Martin Heidegger
Other notable studentsRudolf Carnap
Main interests
Epistemology
Notable ideas
Qualitative distinction held to be made between historical and scientific facts
Distinction between knowing (kennen) and cognizing (erkennen)

Heinrich John Rickert (German: [ˈʁɪkɐt]; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians.

Life

Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany (1894–1915) and Heidelberg (1915–1932).

He died in Heidelberg, Germany.

Philosophy

He is known for his discussion of a qualitative distinction held to be made between historical and scientific facts. Contrary to philosophers like Nietzsche and Bergson, Rickert emphasized that values demand a distance from life, and that what Bergson, Dilthey or Simmel called "vital values" were not true values.[citation needed]

Rickert's philosophy was an important influence on the work of sociologist Max Weber. Weber is said to have borrowed much of his methodology, including the concept of the ideal type, from Rickert's work. Also, Martin Heidegger started out his academic career as Rickert's assistant, graduated with him and then wrote his habilitation thesis under Rickert.

Charles R. Bambach writes:

In his work Rickert, like Dilthey, intended to offer a unifying theory of knowledge which, although accepting a division between science and history or Natur and Geist, overcame this division in a new philosophical method. For Dilthey the method was wedded to hermeneutics; for Rickert it was the transcendental method of Kant.

Rickert, with Wilhelm Windelband, led the so-called Baden school of neo-Kantians.

Works

Notes

  1. ^ Heinrich Rickert, "Knowing and Cognizing: Critical Remarks on Theoretical Intuitionism," in The Neo-Kantian Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts. Edited by Sebastian Luft. New York/London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 384–395.
  2. ^ Sebastian Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Routledge 2015, p. 461.
  3. ^ Bambach, Charles R. Heidegger, Dilthey and the Crisis of Historicism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 30

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