Georg Lasson was a German Protestant theologian, and a son of Adolf Lasson

Adolf Lasson

Adolf Lasson was a German Jewish philosophical writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson.- Biography:...

. He is also known to be an editor of the complete works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

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Biography

Georg Lasson was educated at the Berlin University and at the University of Tübingen

Tübingen

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 (philosophy and theology). He was priest at the Bartholomäuskirche in Berlin from 1902 to 1927. PhD at the University of Kiel. He published his theological research in Theorie des christilichen Dogmas (1897) and Grundfragen der Glaubenslehre (1913). After 1900 he went to philosophy

Philosophy

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. Influenced by his father Adolf Lasson

Adolf Lasson

Adolf Lasson was a German Jewish philosophical writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson.- Biography:...

, he worked on Hegel and German Idealism

German idealism

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 that he interpreted through the Greek thought (Plato

Plato

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 and Aristoteles). In Hegel's dialectic

Dialectic

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 he saw a possibility for a synthesis between philosophy

Philosophy

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 and theology

Theology

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. He described the dialectic as the "identity of identity and non-identity" (Was heisst Hegelianismus?, 1916). He published a critical edition of Hegel's works and edited a sery called Hegel Archiv (1912) after the Kant Studien.

Literary works

• An editor of the "Hegels sämtlicher Werke", 18 Vols., 1905-
• Gottessohn im Fleisch, 1892
• Zur Theorie des christlichen Dogmas, 1897
• Beiträge zur Hegelforschung, 2 Vols., 1909
• Grundfragen des Glaubens, 1913
• Hegel als Geschichtsphilosoph, 1920