Karl Krause

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Krause, Karl Christian Friedrich (4 May 1781 - 27 September 1832)

Born at Eisenberg, Germany, Krause studied at Jena under Hegel and Fichte.

Krause was a philosopher who, under the influence of Schelling and Fichte, became a pantheist. He taught at Jena, Göttingen, and Munich.

Krause attempted to reconcile the absolutism of Hegel with the subjectivism of Fichte in a system that he called panentheism.

He published two books on Freemasonry, Die drei ältesten Kunsturkunden der Freimaurerbrüderschaft and Höhere Vergeistigung der echt überlieferten Grundsymbole der Freimaurerei in zwölf Logenvorträgen, but his opinions drew upon him the opposition of the Masons. He lived for a time in Berlin and became a privatdozent, but was unable to obtain a professorship. He therefore proceeded to Göttingen where he taught Arthur Schopenhauer and afterwards to Munich, where he died of apoplexy at the very moment when the influence of Franz von Baader had at last obtained a position for him.

His other works are Entwurf des Systems der Philosophie (1804); System der Sittenlehre (1810); Das Urbild der Menschheit (1811); and Vorlesungen über das System der Philosophie (1828).

At the time of his death, he left many unpublished notes, parts of which have been collected and published by H. Ahrens (1808-1874), Leonhardi, Tiberghien, and others.

(See entry for Charles Hartshorne.)

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