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Based On History And Rom: HAMANN, ha'man, Johann Georg (1730-1788), German religious thinker and literary critic. Ha-mann was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on Aug. 27, 1730. He had little formal education but was influenced by Pietism and rationalism in Konigsberg. While working in London (1757-1758) he had a religious awakening, based on trust and a personal relationship with the "Lord of the Word and history." As a result, he declared that "All biblical history is a prophecy which is fulfilled in every century and in the soul of man."His History of Ionian Philosophy(1821) ; History of the Pythagorean Philosophy (1826), and Notes on the Philosophy of the Megarean School in the Rheinisches Museum, are models of historical investigation on the principles of Schleiermacher. His historical masterpiece is the History of Philosophy (1829-53), which deals with general history up to the time of Kant. It was supplemented by a Review of the History of German Philosophy from the Time of Kant (1853).
The conditions of political life t the republic fostered the study of rhetoric with the loss of liberty under the empire, R( eloquence declined into a preoccupation with ti forms of epideictic oratory. Because the scl . concerned themselves exclusively with orato training, emphasizing declamation and ficti courtroom cases based on history and rom; rhetoric continued to dominate literature. A 95 A.D. |
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