Gottlob Ernst Schulze

Gottlob Ernst Schulze was a German philosopher born on August 23, 1761, in Heldrungen, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, and died on January 14, 1833, in Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation. He was the grandfather of the pioneering biochemist Ernst Schulze. Schulze held professorships at the universities of Wittenberg, Helmstedt, and Göttingen. His most significant contribution to philosophy was his influential book *Aenesidemus* (1792), which served as a skeptical critique of Immanuel Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason* and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's *Elementary Philosophy*. In his work, Schulze questioned the possibility of overcoming Hume's skepticism about induction, even with Kant's philosophical framework. At Göttingen, he mentored Arthur Schopenhauer, advising him to focus on the philosophies of Plato and Kant, which significantly influenced Schopenhauer's own philosophical development. Schulze studied both psychology and metaphysics under Schulze during the winter semester of 1810 and 1811.