Julius Hermann von Kirchmann (5 November 1802 – 20 October 1884) was a German

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and

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Biography

Kirchmann was educated at Leipzig and

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. In 1846 he was made state's attorney in the criminal court of Berlin, and two years afterwards was chosen to the Prussian National Assembly. From 1871 to 1876 he was a member of the German Reichstag. His philosophy was an attempt to mediate between realism and idealism.On fugacity of law he said: "only three words of the legislature can destroy whole libraries":
, in Mondoperaio, n. 1/2016, p. 80-81

Writings

Kirchmann first attracted attention as a philosopher by his brochure ''Die Wertlosigkeit der Jurisprudenz als Wissenschaft'' (The worthlessness of jurisprudence as a body of knowledge; 1848). His other philosophical writings include: ''Ueber Unsterblichkeit'' (On immortality; 1865), ''Aesthetik auf realistischer Grundlage'' (A realistic foundation for aesthetics; 1868); translations of parts of Aristotle,

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, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and

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, and a remarkable edition of Immanuel Kant in the ''Philosophische Bibliothek'', edited by him (1868 et seq.), and of Thomas Hobbes' ''De Cive'' (1873).

Notes

References

* This work in turn cites: ** Lasson and Meineke, ''Julius von Kirchmann als Philosoph'' (Halle, 1885)

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