Julius Duboc

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Julius Duboc (October 10, 1829 Hamburg - June 11, 1903) was a German author and philosopher.

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Biography

Karl Julius Duboc was the brother of the writer and painter Charles Edouard Duboc (1822 - 1910). He studied in Leipzig, Giessen, and Berlin. During his studies he became a member of the Cattia Gießen fraternity in 1849. [1] He also became a student of Ludwig Feuerbach. [2]

In his philosophical writings, Duboc propagated a form of ethically reverent atheism and defended optimism in opposition to Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism. He critiqued Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1897 "Anti-Nietzsche" (Dresden: Helmuth Henkler). He also published historical works as well as essays and novellas. He died in Niederlößnitz in 1903 and was cremated in the Crematorium Gotha. [3]

Works

Evolutionary monism, atheism and the doctrine that pleasure is the end of all human activity find expression in his works, which include:

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References

  1. Paul Wentzcke, Burschenschafterlisten. Vol. 2: Hans Schneider und Georg Lehnert: Gießen: Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 bis 1936. Görlitz 1942, O. Cattia. Nr. 84.
  2. Renate Vollbrecht, "Duboc, Julius." Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, pp. 145-146.
  3. "Todtenschau." Dresdner Geschichtsblatt, No. 1, 1904, p. 227.

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