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Friedrich Paulsen
(1846-1908)
German philosopher and educator. Educated at Erlangen, Bonn and
Berlin, where he was made extraordinary professor of philosophy
and pedagogy, 1878. In 1896 he followed Zeller as professor of
moral philosophy at Berlin. He was a pupil of G. T. Fechner,
developing his teaching of panpsychism in his Einleitung in die
Philosophie, Introduction to Philosophy, 1892, English transl.
1895. His German Education, Past and Present (English transl.
1907) is well known, as are his writings relative to the philosophy
of Kant.
Note by Rudolf Steiner: When Paulsen (p. 15 of his System of Ethics)
says, "Different natural dispositions and different conditions of life
demand not only different bodily diet but also a different spiritual-moral
diet," he is very near recognition of the truth, but misses the decisive
point. Insofar as I am an individual, I need no diet. Dietetic means the
art of bringing a particular example of the species into harmony with
the general laws. But as an individual I am not an example of a species.
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