Oskar Ewald (; born Oskar Friedländer; 11 November 1881, Búrszentgyörgy/ Sankt Georgen,

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(now Borský Svätý Jur,

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) – 25 September 1940, near

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) was a Hungarian-Austrian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. His father was Moritz Friedländer, a liberal scholar of Judaism who worked with the

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community of the Kingdom of Hungary on matters including the expansion of education. Beginning in 1901, Ewald was a member of a group of young intellectuals in Vienna, Die Männer der Zukunft. In addition to Ewald, this group included

Otto Weininger Otto Weininger (; 3 April 1880 – 4 October 1903) was an Austrian philosopher who in 1903 published the book ''Geschlecht und Charakter'' (''Sex and Character''), which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Weininger had a stron ...

, Arthur Gerber, , , and . Ewald converted to

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and changed his last name to Ewald.

Works

* ''Nietzsches Lehre in ihren Grundbegriffen'', 1903 * ''Gründe und Abgründe'', 1909 * ''Die Erweckung'', 1922 * ''Freidenkertum und Religion'', 1920

References

1881 births 1940 deaths Austrian Jews Hungarian Jews Jewish philosophers Converts to Protestantism from Judaism Dachau concentration camp survivors People from Senica District 20th-century Austrian philosophers 20th-century Hungarian philosophers {{Hungary-philosopher-stub