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    Hermann Cohen

    modernNeo-Kantianism (Marburg School)

    1842 – 1918

    Hermann Cohen was a German-Jewish philosopher and founder of the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism. He developed a systematic philosophy grounded in Kant's transcendental method and later articulated an influential rationalist philosophy of Judaism centered on ethical monotheism.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Founded the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism

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    Authored 'Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism' (1919)

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    Developed a systematic interpretation of Kant's three Critiques

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    Articulated ethical monotheism as the rational core of Judaism

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    Advanced the concept of the 'infinitesimal method' in logic and mathematics

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    Skepticism

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

    Natural Theology

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

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