Moritz Schlick
German philosopher and physicist, 1882-1936
"Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick had worked on his ""Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre"" (""General Theory of Knowledge"") between 1918 and 1925, and, though later developments in his philosophy were to make various contentions of his epistemology untenable, the ""General Theory"" is perhaps his greatest work in its acute reasoning against synthetic a priori knowledge. Between 1926 and 1930, Schlick labored to finish ""Fragen der Ethik"" (""Problems of Ethics""), in which he surprised some of his fellow Circlists by including ethics as a viable branch of philosophy."
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Physiker und Philosoph (1882-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Moritz"). Wien. 5 SS. auf 5 Bll. Gr.-8vo.
$ 5,555 / 4.800 €
(45145/BN31229)
Important letter to his friend, the actress Gerda Tardel: "[...] I am again severely burdened with unpleasant tasks, especially scientific correspondence and reading dissertations, and I am thereby hampered in developing my own thoughts. But that makes no difference: I do manage to finish the really important things, and the more I encounter the true brilliance of genius, the less importance I attach to the normal professorial productions. In the meantime, a long-planned project, a series which I would like to edit and which I hope will achieve nothing less than a revolutionary reform of philosophy, is getting under way [...]".
- Together with Philipp Frankl, Schlick was soon to introduce the "Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung", which he would go on to edit until his death..
Physiker und Philosoph (1882-1936). Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U. ("M. Schlick"). Millstatt. 23.07.1932. 1 S. Qu.-8vo. Mit eh. Adresse.
$ 1,736 / 1.500 €
(62205/BN45357)
An Karl Trötzmüller: "Lieber Herr Trötzmüller, hier sehen Sie das stille Plätzchen wo ich mich zu erholen suche.Es gelingt auch ziemlich gut, obgleich die Sonne wenig dazu mithilft. Hoffentlich scheint sie bei Ihnen freundlicher. Es muss sehr schön in Churwalden sein wenn Ihre Karte einen richtigen Begriff von Ihrer Gegend gibt. Ich danke Ihnen herzlich dafür. Saxophonblasen ist sicherlich sehr lustig; hoffentlich bekommt es Ihnen gut [...]". - Die Bildseite mit einer Ansicht der Baumblüte am Millstättersee; leichte Verwischungen.