Bahnsen, Julius: Der Widerspruch im Wissen und Wesen der WeltJulius Bahnsen (1830-1881) is considered to be the founder of characterology as a science and a dialectic method of philosophic reflection. The different variations of his theories culminated in Bahnsen's two-volume main work “Der Widerspruch im Wissen und Wesen der Welt” (1880-1882). After studying philosophy in Kiel and Tübingen, Bahnsen received his doctorate in 1853 (supervised by Fr. Th. Vischer) on a topic from the field of aesthetics; in keeping with his inclination, Bahnsen was inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer. His philosophy deals with the search for a “Weltbild" resulting in absolute pessimism. His dialectic (non-logical) system accepts only the logical elements of Hegelian dialectics in the abstract sphere, Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will being the basis of all knowledge. Bahnsen puts will and contradiction on the same level and the dialectic dichotomy which “wants nothing but to want no thing” splits Schopenhauer's “all-one” will not only within itself but also separates them into a multitude of individual wills. Logic receives its field of action in the sphere of thinking not in the sphere of reality. Julius Bahnsen is the most consistent of all the Voluntarists. His dialectic developes the philosophic-pessimistic world view by negating a redemption of the eternal, immense and contradictory variability of the innumerable atoms of will or “henads of will” and postulating the permanence of the existence of the contradiction as a basic principle of the world. | |
| Multivolume Work | |
| Der Widerspruch im Wissen und Wesen der Welt | |
| Bahnsen, Julius | |
| 2003 | |
| Olms | |
| Hildesheim [u.a.] | |
| PPN521374405 | |
| Philosophie | |
| http://www.olmsonline.de/purl?PPN521374405 | |
