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Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, FBA (German:; 16 August 1864 – 6 August 1937), usually cited as F. C. S. Schiller, was a German-British philosopher. Born in Altona , Holstein (at that time member of the German Confederation , but under Danish administration), Schiller studied at the University of Oxford , later was a professor there, after ...
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F. C. S. Schiller (1864–1937), British pragmatist/humanist philosopher of the early 20th century; Frederick Schiller (1901–1994), Austrian-born British film actor; Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and dramatist; Harvey Schiller (born 1940), American sports executive; Heinz Schiller (1930–2007), Swiss Formula One driver
F.C.S. Schiller used the analogy of a chair to make clear what he meant by the phrase that truth is made: just as a carpenter makes a chair out of existing materials and doesn't create it out of nothing, truth is a transformation of our experience—but this doesn't imply reality is something we're free to construct or imagine as we please.
In 1935, he emigrated to the USA with the help of F. C. S. Schiller, where he held a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until his death. In Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, Gomperz is mentioned as a guest in scene 0/3 of the prelude (in Café Pucher).
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