Heinrich John Rickert (; ; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, a leading neo-Kantian of the Baden school.
Life Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert and Annette née Stoddart. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg (1894–1915, succeeded by Edmund Husserl) and the University of Heidelberg (1915–1932, succeeding Wilhelm Windelband). He died in Heidelberg amid Nazi Germany.
Despite his earlier support for Jewish philosophers, Rickert later embraced National Socialism.
Philosophy Rickert is known for his discussion of a qualitative distinction between historical and scientific facts. He also argued (against Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Simmel, and the anti-rationalist philosophers of life) that only someone who takes a purely theoretical standpoint can reflect on the world as a whole.
Rickert's philosophy was an important influence on the work of sociologist Max Weber, who borrowed much of his methodology, including the concept of the ideal type. Philosopher Martin Heidegger began his academic career as Rickert's assistant, graduating and writing his habilitation thesis under Rickert.Sebastian Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Routledge 2015, p. 461.
Charles R. Bambach writes:
In addition, Rickert's Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung was cited by the Kantian scholar Lewis White Beck as a major source of inspiration during his early studies as an undergraduate with Leroy Loemker.Falling in Love With Wisdom, ed. by David D. Karnos, Robert G. Shoemaker, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993, pp. 13–15: "How I became Almost a Philosopher" by Lewis White Beck.
Rickert and Windelband led the Baden school of neo-Kantians.
Works Zur Lehre von der Definition [On the Theory of Definition] (1888) (doctoral thesis). Center for Research libraries, crl.edu 2nd. ed., 1915. 3rd ed., 1929. Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis: ein Beitrag zum Problem der philosophischen Transcendenz (1892). Google (UCal) 2nd ed., 1904: Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis: Einführung in die Transzendentalphilosophie. Google (UMich) Google (NYPL) 2nd ed., 1913. The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science (1986). (Tr. Guy Oakes.) Fichtes Atheismusstreit und die kantische Philosophie (1899). Google (UCal) IA (UToronto) Kulturwissenschaft und Naturwissenschaft (1899). 6th/7th revised and expanded ed., 1926.
"Geschichtsphilosophie" in Die Philosophie im Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1905). 2 volumes. Vol. 2, pp. 51–135 Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie: eine Einführung, 3rd ed., 1924. New ed.: Celtis Verlag, Berlin 2013, Wilhelm Windelband (1915). Die Philosophie des Lebens: Darstellung und Kritik der philosophischen Modeströmungen unserer Zeit (1920). IA (UToronto) 2nd ed., 1922. Allgemeine Grundlegung der Philosophie (1921). [System der Philosophie vol. 1] Kant als Philosoph der modernen Kultur (1924). Über die Welt der Erfahrung (1927). Die Logik des Prädikats und das Problem der Ontologie (1930). Die Heidelberger Tradition in der Deutschen Philosophie (1931). Goethes Faust (1932). Grundprobleme der Philosophie: Methodologie, Ontologie, Anthropologie (1934). Unmittelbarkeit und Sinndeutung (1939).
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Further reading Christian Krijnen. Nachmetaphysischer Sinn. Eine problemgeschichtliche und systematische Studie zu den Prinzipien der Wertphilosophie Heinrich Rickerts. Würzburg 2001. . Dewalque, Arnaud. Être et jugement. La fondation de l’ontologie chez Heinrich Rickert, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, coll. « Europaea Memoria », 2010. . Kupriyanov V. "Teleology as a method of historical cognition in H. Rickert's philosophy," SGEM2015 Conference Proceedings, 2015 (Vol. 1, Book 3, pp. 697–702). Mayeda, Graham. 2008. "Is there a Method to Chance? Contrasting Kuki Shūzō’s Phenomenological Methodology in The Problem of Contingency with that of his Contemporaries Wilhelm Windelband and Heinrich Rickert." In Victor S. Hori and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy II: Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations (Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture). Zijderveld, Anton C. Rickert's Relevance. The Ontological Nature and Epistemological Functions of Values. Leiden, Brill 2006. .
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