Emil Lask

Dzieła

• 1902Fichtes Idealismus und die Geschichte (Idealizm Fichtego a historia)

  Rozprawa doktorska Laska z 1902 roku, napisana pod kierunkiem Rickerta we Fryburgu, o idealizmie Fichtego i jego stosunku do historii; jego pierwsze ważne dzieło, dziewięć lat przed logiką filozofii.

• 1911Die Logik der Philosophie und die Kategorienlehre (Logika filozofii i nauka o kategoriach)

  Rozwija filozofię jako naukę o ważności: Lask pyta, jak zmysłowa, irracjonalna treść może być materią formy pojęciowej, nie sprowadzając się do niej, i wskazuje ważność oraz przedmiotowość jako dwa rodzaje formy; jedno z głównych dzieł szkoły południowo-zachodnioniemieckiej.

Stanowisko

Lask is on the map as the most influential and philosophically sophisticated student of Windelband and Rickert, in the words of the SEP entry on neo-Kantianism. Like his teachers he held that philosophy is the science of validity, but he worried that the stress on the objectivity of the valid and on the split between the factual and the normative could harden into a two-world metaphysics. In The Logic of Philosophy and the Doctrine of Categories (1911) he turned this into a two-element view: the form of a sense is validity, the form of an object is objectivity, and sensory content can be matter for conceptual form without being reduced to it. The Doctrine of Judgment (1912) added a primary object between the content of a judgment and the object judged. The problem of the irrational given, which Lask posed in this form, was taken over by Max Weber, who names him with Windelband and Rickert as a source of his epistemology; it also shaped the young Georg Lukács. Heidegger’s lecture course of 1919 made Lask’s philosophy of value a target of phenomenological critique, and Lask criticised Rickert’s view that natural science and historical individualisation are equally legitimate.

Życie i kontekst

Emil Lask was born in 1875. He studied with Wilhelm Windelband in Heidelberg and with Heinrich Rickert in Freiburg, under whom he wrote his dissertation Fichte’s Idealism and History (1902). He later habilitated at Heidelberg, where he became a professor. He died in 1915 in the First World War.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Fichte’s Idealism and History (Fichtes Idealismus und die Geschichte, 1902)
• The Logic of Philosophy and the Doctrine of Categories (Die Logik der Philosophie und die Kategorienlehre, 1911)
• The Doctrine of Judgment (Die Lehre vom Urteil, 1912)