Wolfgang Köhler
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Köhler, Wolfgang (1887-1967) One of the founders of the Gestalt school of psychology, Köhler also wrote The Place of Value in a World of Facts (1938), the result of his William James lectures delivered at Harvard in 1934. Köhler attempted to work out a theory of value, including aesthetic value, on the basis of the phenomenally objective gestalt-quality which he called ‘requiredness’. One part of a visual field, for example, may demand completion in some specific way, rather as a melody may require resolution.
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See his selected papers, ed. by M. Henle (1971).
Estonian-born German psychologist. A founder of the Gestalt psychology movement, his works include The Mentality of Apes (1917) and Gestalt Psychology (1937).
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"It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand."
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