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Karl Fortlage
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or KARL FORTLAGE (1806-1881), German philosopher, was born at Osnabruck. After teaching in Heidelberg and Berlin, he became professor of philosophy at Jena (1846), a post which he held till his death. Originally a follower of Hegel, he turned to Fichte and Beneke (q.v.), with whose insistence on psychology as the basis of all philosophy he fully agreed. The fundamental idea of his psychology is impulse, which combines representation (which presupposes consciousness) and feeling (i.e. pleasure). Reason is the highest thing in nature, i.e. is divine in its nature, God is the absolute Ego and the empirical egos are his instruments.
Fortlage's chief works are: Genetische Geschichte d. Philos. seit Kant (Leipzig, 1852); System d. Psych. als empirische Wissenschaft (2 vols., Leipzig, 1855); Darstellung and Kritik der Beweise fur das Dasein Gottes (Heidelberg, 1840); Beitrcige zur Psych. als Wissenschaft (Leipzig, 1875).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Karl Fortlage'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/karl-fortlage.html. 1910.
