Paul Rée
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Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Rée was born in Pomerania, on 21 November 1849, near the south coast of the Baltic Sea in the village of Bartelshagen. He is best known for his friendship with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who criticized Rée in the preface of On the Genealogy of Morals.
His status as the son of a wealthy businessman allowed him to study philosophy and law at the University of Leipzig. The monthly allowance Rée received from his family allowed him to pursue his own interests in his studies. He had read Darwin, Schopenhauer, and French writers such as La Bruyère and La Rochfoucauld. Rée conglomerated his diverse studies under the heading of “psychological observations”, describing human nature through aphorisms, literary and philosophical exegesis. By 1875, Rée had qualified for his doctorate from Halle, and produced a dissertation on “the noble” in Aristotle’s Ethics.
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