1854 in philosophy
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1854 in philosophy
Events
- Søren Kierkegaard launches his attack on Christendom represented by the Church of Denmark with a series of newspaper pamphlets and polemics today collected under the title The Moment.[http://sorenkierkegaard.org/the-moment.html The Attack Upon Christendom (1854-55)]
Publications
- George Boole, The Laws of Thought (1854)
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Births
- January 1 - James George Frazer (died 1941)
- April 29 - Henri Poincaré (died 1912)
Deaths
- August 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (born 1775)