Soren, Ben, List: My apologies for posting possibly erroneous information with respect to the name Schlierermacher. ( I am not with my library and was not able to access the book and get the information)
Thanks Soren for spotting a possible mis-representation of my memories. My interest in this topic was motivated by the novel of Goethe, Selective Affinities (1809). Goethe models his novel on chemical affinities, >From the web "The 19th-century scientific term for the chemical attraction of >certain substances to each other above others makes for an unlikely title for >a Romantic novella, or so it would seem. But Johann Wolfgang Goethe's classic >work uses the chemical metaphor to explore the conflict between bonds created >by society and the bonds that are formed through chemical attractions. >Controversial in its day, as it lent itself to the interpretation that love >could be reduced to a chemical attraction, the novella continues to be >relevant. Despite a shift in mores, contemporary readers will recognise the >emotional pressures and the problems that Goethe explores through his >characters and the Romantic landscape." This is just a few years after the extremely important work of Volta, tying electricity to chemistry in a deep and fundamental way. My search was for the reasoning that was used in the early 19th Century to tie these two subjects together. At this point in time, all I can say that the Scheierermacher cited by Soren and described by S.E.P. is not the person who wrote the essay on electricity and chemistry to which I was referring. It also appears that the person referred to by CSP may be the person cited by Soren. To the best of my recollection, the book in which I read the material was by Robert Richards, UC, "The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe" I will attempt to identify the correct facts and post them here. My goal was to understand better why CSP paid so little attention to the role of electricity in his scientific writing. >From the perspective of the history of chemistry, electricity became the >foundation of chemistry in the second and third decades of the twentieth >century as it provides the basis for the description of the emergence of >molecules from atoms. Again, my apologies. Cheers Jerry On Apr 15, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Søren Brier wrote: > About Schleimacher, here is a quote from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schleiermacher/ > > Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher > First published Wed Apr 17, 2002 > Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) probably cannot be ranked > as one of the greatest German philosophers of the eighteenth and nineteenth > centuries (like Kant, Herder, Hegel, Marx, or Nietzsche). But he is certainly > one of the most interesting of the second-tier philosophers of the period. > Nor was he only a philosopher; he was also an eminent classicist and > theologian. Much of his philosophical work was in the philosophy of religion, > but from a modern philosophical point of view it is probably his hermeneutics > (i.e. theory of interpretation) and his theory of translation that deserve > the most attention. This article will attempt to provide a fairly broad > overview of his philosophical thought. One thing which will emerge when this > is done is that although he has important philosophical debts to many > predecessors and contemporaries (including Spinoza, Kant, Friedrich Schlegel, > and Schelling), he was above all following in the philosophical footsteps of > one predecessor in particular: Herder. > > Best > > Søren > > > Fra: Jerry LR Chandler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sendt: 15. april 2014 04:30 > Til: Benjamin Udell > Cc: [email protected] > Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: de Waal Seminar: Chapter 6, Philosophy of Science > > Ben, List > > Thanks for citations. I will study them in some detail and from several > perspectives. Very important to me. > > On Apr 14, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote: > > > Or did Schleiermacher start out in theology? > > Yes, the three theology students studied at Tubingen together in the early > years the 19th Century. My understanding is that they were strongly > influenced by the ideas of Lavoisier, Volta and Dalton. > If you are aware of German intellectual history, all three were Swabens! > > I was first introduced to the intertwined lives of these three students in > the book by Roberts on German Idealism. > It is an excellent summary of the currents in german philosophy in the first > half of hte 19th Century, that is, before CSP began his work. > > In many places in his writings, CSP is a very harsh critic of German > philosophy, logic and even language. I have never grasp the reasoning behind > CSP's negativism. > > Anybody have any clues on why CSP disrespected the Germans? > Was this a consequence of CSP's Unitarianism? > > Cheers > > Jerry
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