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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
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Born 8 April 1859 · Died 27 April 1938 · Q58586
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Here 'Judgement' has the same meaning as 'proposition', understood, not as a grammatical, but as an ideal unity of meaning. This is the case with all the distinctions of acts or forms of judgement, which provide the foundations for the laws of pure logic. Categorial, hypothetical, disjunctive, existential judgements, and however else we may call them, in pure logic are not names for classes of judgements, but for ideal forms of propositions.
“Here 'Judgement' has the same meaning as 'proposition', understood, not as a grammatical, but as an ideal unity of meaning. This is the case with all the distinctions of acts or forms of judgement, which provide the foundations for the laws of pure logic. Categorial, hypothetical, disjunctive, existential judgements, and however else we may call them, in pure logic are not names for classes of judgements, but for ideal forms of propositions.”
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Became the leader of the Husserl-Archives
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With a dissertation on ontological distance, an inquiry into the crisis of Husserl's phenomenology
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Smuggled to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium by the Franciscan priest Herman Van Breda
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Died 1938-04-27.
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And Vienna in 1936, which resulted in a very differently styled work that, while innovative, is no less problematic: Die Krisis (Belgrade 1936)
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The racial laws of the new National Socialist German Workers Party were enacted
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Under racial laws of the Nazi Party, Husserl was banned from using the library of the University of Freiburg due to his Jewish family background and months later resigned from the Deutsche Akademie
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Husserl being of Jewish origin and Heidegger infamously being then a Nazi proponent
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And who were the true Germans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition t
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And included pointed criticism of Heidegger in lectures he gave during 1931
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Gave a presentation at one of Husserl's last seminars in Freiburg
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Led to Méditations cartésiennes (Paris 1931)
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After which he remained highly productive
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Heidegger dedicated his book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) to him "in grateful respect and friendship
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Called on him to relocate there, but he declined the offer
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And Gerhart in 1923; Wolfgang, however, became a casualty of the First World War
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The prestige of Hartmann, the neo-Kantian, who was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg, was added to the Movement; he "publicly declared his solidarity with the actual work of die Phänomenologie
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To the University of Freiburg (in Freiburg im Breisgau) where he continued bringing his work in philosophy to fruition, now as a full professor
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Adolf Reinach "was now Husserl's right hand
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In which they were at first incorporated, and a plan for a second edition of the Logische Untersuchungen
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In Freiburg, the journal Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung ("Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research") was founded by Husserl and his school, which published articles of their phenome
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Became joint editor of the journal Logos
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And found in his phenomenology a methodological breakthrough for his own philosophy
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Husserl, with his family, moved to the University of Göttingen, where he taught as extraordinarius professor
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Their daughter Elizabeth was born, in 1893 their son Gerhart, and in 1894 their son Wolfgang
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Published his Philosophie der Arithmetik
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As a Privatdozent at the University of Halle
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Which would serve later as the basis for his first important work, Philosophie der Arithmetik (1891)
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Husserl married Malvine Steinschneider, a union that would last over fifty years
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Husserl followed Carl Stumpf, a former student of Brentano, to the University of Halle, seeking to obtain his habilitation which would qualify him to teach at the university level
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At the University of Vienna he attended the lectures of Franz Brentano on philosophy and philosophical psychology
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Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor (1881–1883).
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Obtained his PhD with the work Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of variations)
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Left for the University of Vienna to complete his mathematics studies under the supervision of Leo Königsberger (a former student of Weierstrass)
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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1878–1881).
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Where he continued his study of mathematics under Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass
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Studied at Leipzig University (1878).
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Born 1859-04-08.
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In Proßnitz in the Margraviate of Moravia in the Austrian Empire (today Prostějov in the Czech Republic)
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