Paul Natorp

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Paul Natorp
Marburg University
ThesisDescartes' Erkenntnistheorie: Eine Studie zur Vorgeschichte des Kriticismus (Descartes's Theory of Knowledge: A Study in the Pre-history of Criticism) (1882)
Doctoral advisorErnst Laas (PhD advisor)
Hermann Cohen (Dr. phil. hab. advisor)
Doctoral studentsHans-Georg Gadamer
Other notable studentsNicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer, Karl Barth
Main interests
Philosophical logic

Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a

Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato
.

Biography

Paul Natorp was born in

Marburg University, a position he retained until his retirement in 1922. In the winter semester of 1923–24 Natorp conducted an intensive exchange of ideas with Martin Heidegger, who had been called to Marburg and whose work on Duns Scotus
Natorp had read very early on.

In 1887 he married his cousin Helene Natorp; they had five children. Natorp was an ambitious composer, who wrote chiefly chamber music (including a cello sonata, a violin sonata, and a piano trio). He also wrote some 100 songs and two choral works. He conducted a correspondence with Johannes Brahms, who dissuaded him from becoming a professional composer.

He was an influence on the early work of

theologian Karl Barth and the author of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
.

Works

Notes

References

  • Judy Deane Saltzmann Paul Natorp's Philosophy of Religion within the Marburg Neo-Kantian Tradition (1980)
  • Alexis Philonenko L'École de Marbourg : Cohen, Natorp, Cassirer (1989)
  • Karl-Heinz Lembeck Platon in Marburg: Platon-Rezeption Und Philosophiegeschichtsphilosophie Bei Cohen Und Natorp (1994)
  • Julien Servois Paul Natorp et la Théorie Platonicienne des Idées (2004)
  • Norbert Jegelka Paul Natorp (1992)

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