Hartmann

Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von, the eminent German philosopher, was born in 1842 at Berlin. He served in the Prussian army from 1858 to 1865, after which he settled in Berlin and devoted himself to philosophic studies. He made his name known in 1869, when his Philosophy of the Unconscious (Unbeivussten) was published. This work, which reached a 10th edition in 1890, was translated into.English in 1884 by Coupland. It if a combination, under the influence of the teaching of Schelling, of Hegelian idealism with the pessimism of Schopenhauer. Hartmann has also written on aesthetics, Die Philosophic des Schonen, etc.; on religion, Die Religion des Geistes, and other works; and on political and miscellaneous subjects, Moderns Problcme, etc. A summeiry of his philosophical system was produced by Koeber in 1884.