Dieter Henrich was born in Marburg, on 5 January 1927, the son of Hans Harry Dieter Henrich, who worked in survey services, and his wife Frieda nee Blum.
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Dieter Henrich earned his Abitur from the humanistic Gymnasium Philippinum in Marburg in 1946.
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Dieter Henrich studied philosophy, history and sociology between 1946 and 1950 at Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelberg.
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Dieter Henrich completed his PhD dissertation at Heidelberg in 1950 under the supervision of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
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Dieter Henrich wrote his habilitation in 1956, titled Selbstbewusstsein und Sittlichkeit.
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Dieter Henrich was professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1960 to 1965, at the University of Heidelberg from 1965 to 1981, and at the University of Munich from 1981 to 1994, instructing generations of philosophers in standards of interpreting classical texts.
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Dieter Henrich was a visiting professor at universities in the United States, such as Harvard and Columbia.
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Dieter Henrich introduced the idea that I-thoughts imply a belief in the existence of a world of objects.
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Dieter Henrich introduced the term Fichte's original insight to describe Johann Gottlieb Fichte's idea that the self must already have some prior acquaintance with itself, independent of the act of self-reflection.
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Dieter Henrich noted that Fichte saw the transcendental subject as a primordial selfhood and identified its activity as prior to self-reflection.
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Dieter Henrich introduced the term Kantian fallacy to describe Immanuel Kant's attempt to ground the self in pure self-reflection, positing the moment of self-reflection as the original source of self-consciousness.
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Dieter Henrich's thinking was focused on the mystery of self-consciousness.
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Dieter Henrich pointed out that the evidence of self-consciousness was not really self-evident, but rather obscure, possibly the manifestation of a reason concealed in the clarity of self-consciousness and eluding thought.