Harald Hoffding

When we pass into intuition we pass into a state without problems.

Summary

Harald Hoffding (1843 - 1931) was a Danish philosopher.

He, along with Juan Lopez Ibor and others, called attention to the cinesthetic and vivencial aspects of feeling alive and was the first to use the concept of Vital Feelings (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

Ideas

• Hoffding believed that the world of reality as a whole is unknowable although we may believe that conscious experience and its unity afford the best keys to unlock the metaphysical riddle.
• He defined welfare as a continuous state of pleasurable feeling.
• He considered ethical judgments (judgments concerning good and bad), in their simplest form are expressions of feeling, and never lose that character however much influence clear and reasoned knowledge may acquire with respect to them.