DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DC095-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/german-idealism/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/german-idealism/v-1
Article Summary
From the late eighteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth, German philosophy was dominated by the movement known as German idealism, which began as an attempt to complete Kant’s revolutionary project: the derivation of the principles of knowledge and ethics from the spontaneity and autonomy of mind or spirit. However, German idealists produced systems whose relation to Kant is controversial, due to their emphasis on the absolute unity and historical development of reason.
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Franks, Paul. German idealism, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DC095-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/german-idealism/v-1.
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Franks, Paul. German idealism, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DC095-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/german-idealism/v-1.
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