Carrière

Carrière, MORIZ, a German philosopher and many-sided man of letters, born at Griedel, in Hesse, 5th March 1817, studied at Giessen, Göttingen, and Berlin, and in 1853 became professor of Philosophy at Munich. He is one of the founders of the modern school of thought which endeavours to reconcile Deism and Pantheism. His works on Esthetics (q. v.) have been widely read in Germany; his Ästhetik reached a third edition in 1884, and so popular was his important work, Die Kunst im Zusammenhang der Kulturentwicklung und die Ideale der Menschheit (5 vols. 1863-74), that a third edition was commenced in 1876. He also published Die sittliche Weltordnung (1877), a thoughtful monograph on Cromwell, several volumes of verse, &c. He died 19th January 1895.