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About Gustav Emil Mueller
- Gustav Emil Mueller (May 12, 1898 – July 10, 1987) was a Swiss philosopher and Hegelian scholar. Mueller was born in Bern, Switzerland, and received a doctorate in philosophy in 1923 from the University of Bern.
- He studied also at the University of Heidelberg.
- After teaching in European universities and joining the faculty of the University of Oregon in 1925, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma in 1930 where he remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1968.
- He then returned to Bern, where he continued to work and write until the end of his life.
- Here is a quote: We are human in being with and for one another, I cannot be human by or for myself.
- I distrust this "I alone" of the mystic; is it not a spiritual gluttony? The historian observes us and our religions externally, in masses, as thing-in-itself.
- But human reality is between "I alone" and "mass-object." We are in-betweens, bridges, passages to each other, neither self-contained nor bridges into an absolute void.
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- If we approach religion from a merely historical point of view we are—I am quoting Hegel—like clerks in a bank registering other people's wealth.
- We cannot study the history of religion in the hope of becoming religious ourselves.
- What we become is not religious, but learned in the history of some religions.
- Discourses on Religion by Gustav Emil Muller 1951 His parents were Gustav Adolf Arthur Mueller (Müller) (1860 - 1923) and Therese Schwarzenbach (1862 -1956).
- Both of his grandfathers were also professors.
- Johann Müller was a professor of mathematics at Bern Gymnasium and Valentin Schwarzenbach was professor of chemistry at the University of Bern.
- He married Renee Frieda Mueller (Müller) (1898 - 1992) in 1925, and they had three children.
- He also wrote and published poetry and drama, and composed music.
- Mueller's collected papers are housed at the University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections.
- Hegel: The Man, His Vision, and His Work (1959) is considered to be his most important contribution.
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