Anastasius Nordenholz (1862 - 1953) is the author of ''
Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens'' (''Scientology, Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge'') written in 1933.
His life
Anastasius Nordenholz was born on February 1, 1862, in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina. At the age of 16 he came to
Germany and studied law,
political economics and
philosophy
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successively in
Berlin,
Zurich and
Jena. He then went to
Munich, studying there as a private scholar until around 1905.
[Life of Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz]
, in Free Zone “alternative scientology” site.
In 1904, he published a study titled ''Allgemeine Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Produktion'' (
''General Theory of the Production in Society''), which was linked with
Schopenhauer and in which he examined
Kant's
criticism
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. This concerned
political economics, with a focus on the science of human thinking and knowledge. This book was followed in 1927 with ''Welt als Individuation - Entwurf eines Individuationismus'' (''World as Individuation - Concept of an
Individuationism''). A supplement of the Publishing House Felix Meiner in Leipzig said:
:“the author wants to unify the two big tendencies of
European Spirituality, namely Kant's criticism and
Darwin
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's
selectionism. He tries to place the means of thinking of both directions in a neutral conceptional system and therewith tries to obtain a starting point in order to actually establish a critical statement regarding our conceptual thinking. The new unification is called individuationism. Hence a methodology of thinking of the world is signified which is based on the assumption of a world creative role of individuation. Within individuation, the inner circle of the
consciousness and the outer circle of the
senses have one and the same
denominator. Perhaps we find here the decisive word for a solution to the rational-irrational crisis from which our actual
conceptual thinking suffers".
[
His work ''Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens'' ("''Scientology Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge''") was published in 1934. The ]Church of Scientology
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has actively but in vain tried to suppress the book, as well as the domain name “scientologie”.[
He spent the remainder of his life in Las Rosas, in the southwest of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, to which he came back to after World War I. He subsequently returned to Germany only as visitor. Nordenholz died at the age of 91 on September 21, 1953, in Santa Fe, Argentina.][
]
See also
* '' Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens''
References
External links
Scientologie home page
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1862 births
1953 deaths
Free Zone (Scientology)
Argentine emigrants to Germany
Writers from Buenos Aires
Argentine political philosophers
German political philosophers
German philosophers