Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Tags: Philosopher.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was an influential German philosopher literary figure socialite and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi. He is notable for coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought particularly in the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza Immanuel Kant Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schelling.

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birth date

1743-01-25

birth place

Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Düsseldorf, Electoral Palatinate

death date

1819-03-10

death place

Germany, Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Moses Mendelssohn, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Victor Cousin

influenced by

Adam Smith, Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Reid, Moses Mendelssohn, Christian Wolff (philosopher), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

main interest

Ethics, Metaphysics, Religion, Scottish Common Sense Realism

notableIdea

Nihilism, Revelation

philosophicalSchool

German idealism