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Max Picard
Swiss philosopher
Max Picard | |
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| Born | (1888-06-05)5 June 1888 Schopfheim, Baden, Germany |
| Died | 3 October 1965(1965-10-03) (aged 77) Sorengo, Switzerland |
| Occupation | writer, philosopher |
| Language | German |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
Max Picard (5 June 1888 in Schopfheim, Baden, Germany – 3 October 1965 in Sorengo, Switzerland) was a Swiss writer and philosopher, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century.
Max picard philosopher descartes
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in Schopfheim, a German village on the Swiss border, Max Picard studied medicine and received his medical degree in 1911. He practiced medicine, first in Heidelberg and later in Munich.
Unsatisfied with the positivist and Darwinian orientations of the medical profession at the time, he began as of 1915 to distance himself from it to turn more towards philosophy. In 1919, he immigrated to Switzerland, first to Locarno and later to Brissago.
In 1929,