CARRIERE, MORITZ (1817-1895), German philosopher and historian, was born at Griedel in Hesse Darmstadt. He studied at Giessen, Gottingen, and Berlin, taught philosophy at Giessen, and in 1853 was appointed professor at the University of Munich, where he lectured mainly on aesthetics. An avowed enemy of Ultramontanism, he helped to make the idea of German unity more palatable to the South Germans. He belonged to the theis tic school of the younger Fichte, whose aim was to reconcile deism and pantheism, and he upheld the fundamental truths of Christianity. His most important works are : Aesthetik (Leip zig, 1859; 3rd ed., 1885) , supplemented by Die Kunst im Zusam meelaang der Kulturentwicklung and der Ideale der Menschheit (3rd ed., 1877-86) ; Die philosopliische Weltanschauung der Re f ormationszeit (Stuttgart, 1847 ; 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1886), and Die sittliche Weltordnung (Leipzig, 1877; 2nd ed., 1891), in which he recognized both the immutability of the laws of nature and the freedom of the will. He described his view of the world and life as "real-idealism." His essay on Cromwell (in Lebensskizzen, 189o), which may be considered his political confession of faith, also deserves mention. His complete works were published at Leipzig in 1886-94.
See S. P. V. Lind in Zeitschrift f. Philos. (cvi. 1895, pp. W. Christ in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1903).