Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
(1743-1819) German philosopher of “feeling” who opposed the Kantian tradition. He held that the system of absolute subjective idealism, to which he reduced Kant, could not grasp ultimate reality. He was equally opposed to a dogmatic rationalism such as the Spinozistic. He based his view upon feeling, belief or faith by which he purported to find truth as immediately revealed in consciousness. Main worksUeber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an Moses Mendelsohn, 1785; David Hume ber den Glauben, 1787; Sendschreiben an Fichte, 1799. — L.E.D.