Otto Flügel (16 June 1842,

Lützen is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Geography Lützen is situated in the Leipzig Bay, approximately southwest of the Leipzig city limits and northeast of Weißenfels. The town has access to the Bundesstraße 8 ...

– 9 July 1914, Dölau, Halle) was a German

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

and

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

Biography

He studied at

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and Halle, and took up pastoral work. He was made editor of the ''Zeitschrift für exacte Philosophie im Sinne des Neueren Philosophischen Realismus'' (“Journal for exact philosophy in the sense of the newer

philosophical realism Philosophical realism is usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters. Realism about a certain kind of thing (like numbers or morality) is the thesis that this kind of thing has ''mind-independent exi ...

”), and in 1894 was one of the founders of ''Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Pädagogik''. He was a supporter of Herbartian realism, as opposed to New-

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speculations, yet he believed in the necessity of a revelation.

Works

Among his works may be mentioned: * ''Die Spekulative Theologie der Gegenwart'' (“Speculative theology of the present”) * ''Das Ich und die sittliche Idee im Leben der Völker'' (“The ego and the moral idea in the life of peoples,” 1892) * ''Über die persönliche Unsterblichkeit'' (“On personal immortality,” 1902) * ''Monismus und Theologie'' (“

Monism Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept e.g., existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished: * Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., i ...

and theology,” 1908)

References

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