Julius Duboc
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Julius Duboc, c. 1900
Julius Duboc (October 10, 1829 Hamburg - June 11, 1903) was a German author and philosopher.
Biography[]
He studied at Giessen, Leipzig and Berlin, and became a disciple of Ludwig Feuerbach.
Works[]
Evolutionary monism, atheism and the doctrine that pleasure is the end of all human activity find expression in his works, which include:
- Soziale Briefe (“Letters on society,” 3rd ed. 1873)
- Geschichte der Englischen Presse (“History of the English press,” 1873)
- Die Psychologie der Liebe (“The psychology of love,” 1874)
- Das Leben ohne Gott, Untersuchungen über den ethischen Gehalt des Atheismus (“Life without God, studies on the ethical content of atheism,” 1875)
- Gegen den Strom (“Against the tide,” a collection of his earlier essays, 1877)
- Der Optimismus als Weltanschauung (“Optimism as a way of looking at the world,” 1881)
- Hundert Jahre Zeitgeist in Deutschland (“A hundred years of the spirit of the times in Germany,” 1889)
- Jenseits von Wirklichen (“On the other side from reality,” 1896)
- Die Lust als sozialethisches Entwicklungsprinzip (“Desire as a principle of social development,” 1900)
- Fünfzig Jahre Frauenfrage in Deutschland (“Fifty years of the woman question in Germany,” a collection of essays)
References[]
- Renate Vollbrecht (1959), "Duboc, Julius", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 4, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 145–146; (full text online)
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
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