Friedrich Albert Lange (September 28, 1828 - November 23, 1875), was a German philosopher and sociologist. September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ...

He was born on at Wald, near Solingen, the son of the theologian, Johann Peter Lange. He was educated at Duisburg, Zürich and Bonn, where he distinguished himself in gymnastics as much as academically. In 1852 he became a schoolmaster at Cologne; in 1835 privatdozent in philosophy at Bonn; and in 1858 schoolmaster at Duisburg, resigning when the government forbade schoolmasters to take part in political agitation. Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Theology is literally reasonable discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... Johann Peter Lange (April 10, 1802 - July 9, 1884), German Protestant theologian, was of peasant origin and was born at Sonneborn near Elberfeld. ...

Lange then began a career of militant journalism in the cause of political and social reform. He was prominent in public affairs, yet found leisure to write most of his best-known books, Die Leibesitbungen (1863), Die Arbeiterfrage (1865, 5th ed. 1894), Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart (1866), and John Stuart Mill's Ansichten uber die sociale Frage (1866). Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, reporting and analyzing information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 – May 8, 1873), aka JS Mill, an English philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ...

In 1866, discouraged by affairs in Germany, he moved to Winterthur, near Zürich, to become connected with the democratic newspaper, Winterthurer Landbote. In 1869 he was Privatdozent at Zürich, and next year professor. The strong French sympathies of the Swiss in the Franco-German War led to his speedy resignation. Thenceforward he gave up politics. In 1872 he accepted a professorship at the University of Marburg. Unhappily, his vigorous frame was already stricken with disease, and, after a lingering illness, he died at Marburg. 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Winterthur is a city in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. ... Zürich IPA (in English often Zurich, which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 364,558 in 2002; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Battle of Gravelotte Main article: Battle of Gravelotte Battle of Sedan Main article: Battle of Sedan The French were soundly defeated in several battles owing to the military superiority of the Prussian forces and their commanders. ... The University of Marburg, officially called Philipps-Universität Marburg after its founder, the Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse (usually called the Magnanimous), was founded in 1527 and is the worlds first and oldest Protestant university. ...

His Logische Studien was published by H Cohen in 1877. His main work, the Geschichte des Materialismus is a didactic exposition of principles rather than a history in the proper sense. According to Lange, to think clearly about materialism is to refute it. Geschichte des Materialismus is a philosophical work of 1866, originally written in German by Friedrich Albert Lange Adopting the Kantian standpoint that we can know nothing but phenomena, Lange maintains that neither materialism nor any other metaphysical system has a valid claim to ultimate truth. ... Materialism is the philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are comprised of material. The view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically, and most famously by...

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