Ernst Heinrich Gustav Laas was a German gymnasium teacher, philosopher of positivism and education, and chair of philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Strasbourg. The insights he found in the history of philosophy and philosophies based on sensualism are key aspects of his scholarly work.
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Former building of the Joachimthal Gymnasium, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Bundesallee.
Photo of Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. Trendelenburg was one of the most important philosophers for Laas' philosophical development.
University of Strasbourg at the end of the 19th century. This is where Laas became a professor 1872.
Title page of Kants Analogien der Erfahrung, where Laas gives his a detail presentation of his views on Kant's epistemology.
Portrait of Auguste Comte, the founder of modern positivist philosophy.
Bust of Protagoras (490-420 BCE). Laas saw Protagoras as the person who originated the positivist/sensualist tradition of philosophy.
Bust of Plato (427-348 BCE). Laas took Plato to be the founder of the idealist tradition of philosophy.Academics born in the 1830s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1837 to 1885 · aged 48
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