Eduard von Hartmann

Eduard von Hartmann
Eduard von Hartmann
	Von Hartmann in 1885
Born	Karl Robert Eduard Hartmann; 23 February 1842; Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Confederation
Died	5 June 1906 (aged 64); Groß-Lichterfelde, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany
Education	United Artillery and Engineering School; University of Rostock (Ph.D., 1867);
Notable work	Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869)
Spouses	; Agnes Taubert (m. 1872; died 1877) ; Alma Lorenz (m. 1878)
Children	6
Family	Robert von Hartmann (father)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Post-Kantian philosophy; Transcendental realism; Metaphysical voluntarism; Post-Schopenhauerian pessimism; Pantheism; Irrationalism;
Main interests	Aesthetics; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Psychology;
Notable ideas	Theory of the Unconscious (Reason and Will are irreducible to each other); Pessimistic interpretation of the "Best of all possible worlds" theory;
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Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (23 February 1842 – 5 June 1906) was a German philosopher, independent scholar and author of Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). His notable ideas include the theory of the Unconscious and a pessimistic interpretation of the "best of all possible worlds" concept in metaphysics.

^ Peter Howarth, British Poetry in the Age of Modernism, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 163.
^ Beiser, Frederick C., Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 147.
^ Beiser, Frederick C., Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 129.
^ Jung, C. G. ([1959] 1969). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, Volume 9, Part 1, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01833-2, par. 259: "Although various philosophers, among them Leibniz, Kant, and Schelling, had already pointed very clearly to the problem of the dark side of the psyche, it was a physician who felt impelled, from his scientific and medical experience, to point to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche. This was C. G. Carus, the authority whom Eduard von Hartmann followed."

Eduard von Hartmann
Von Hartmann in 1885
Born	Karl Robert Eduard Hartmann (1842-02-23)23 February 1842 Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Confederation
Died	5 June 1906(1906-06-05) (aged 64) Groß-Lichterfelde, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany
Education	United Artillery and Engineering School University of Rostock (Ph.D., 1867)
Notable work	Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869)
Spouses	Agnes Taubert (m. 1872; died 1877) Alma Lorenz (m. 1878)
Children	6
Family	Robert von Hartmann (father)

Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Post-Kantian philosophy^[1] Transcendental realism^[2] Metaphysical voluntarism Post-Schopenhauerian pessimism Pantheism Irrationalism
Main interests	Aesthetics Epistemology Metaphysics Psychology
Notable ideas	Theory of the Unconscious (Reason and Will are irreducible to each other) Pessimistic interpretation of the "Best of all possible worlds" theory

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