Georg Lasson

Georg Lasson (July 13, 1862, Berlin - December 2, 1932, Berlin) was a German Protestant theologian, and a son of Adolf Lasson. He was a co-editor of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Sämtliche Werke in the Meiner edition (See Hegel bibliography). Although the result is not always praised today, his edition is useful to researches as he had access to manuscripts that have since been lost.[1]

Biography

Georg Lasson was studied philosophy and theology at the Berlin University and the University of Tübingen. He was priest at the Bartholomäuskirche in Berlin from 1902 to 1927. He received a PhD at the University of Kiel. He published his theological research in Theorie des christilichen Dogmas (1897) and Grundfragen der Glaubenslehre (1913). After 1900 he went to philosophy. Influenced by his father Adolf Lasson, he worked on Hegel and German Idealism that he interpreted through the Greek thought (Plato and Aristoteles). In Hegel's dialectic he saw a possibility for a synthesis between philosophy and theology. He described the dialectic as the "identity of identity and non-identity" (Was heisst Hegelianismus?, 1916).[2] He published a critical edition of Hegel's works and edited a series called Hegel Archiv (1912), after the Kant Studien.

Notes

  1. ↑ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Peter Crafts Hodgson; Robert F Brown (1988). Lectures on the philosophy of religion. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 9. ISBN 0520061268 – via Google books.
  2. ↑ Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, IV (1992), 1212-1213

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