SOURCE: “Eduard Von Hartmann 1842-1906,” in Founders of Modern Psychology, D. Appleton and Company, 1912, pp. 181-243.

In the following essay, Hall relates biographical details of Hartmann's life in order to explicate his philosophy.

The most conspicuous figure in the philosophical world for years was unquestionably Hartmann. His opinions, however, were so largely the expression of his remarkable personality, to which attention is irresistibly drawn at so many points in reading his works, that the only logical introduction to an epitome of his philosophy is a brief characterization of the man himself. He was born on February 13, 1842, in Berlin, where nearly all of his life was passed, the only child of a captain and examiner in the artillery school, and was trained at home with the greatest tenderness and devotion by his mother and her maiden sister, although a spirit of military discipline pervaded his father's house. He entered...