German Idealism

"Deutscher Idealismus" (german-idealism) is signalizes from three important postulates.
The three postulates are a free will, the immortality of the soul and the existence of God.
That are the required qualifications for Immanuel Kant´s (* 22. April 1724 in Königsberg; † 12. Februar 1804 in Königsberg) "Critik der praktischen Vernunft (Critique of Practical Reason)". That´s his second critique (1788). His first critique is the "Critik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason)" The Critique of Pure Reason (KrV) is from 1781.
He wrote his third critique in the year 1790. The "Kritik der Urteils
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Judgment
Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Critique of Practical Reason
German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801
The Philosophy of History
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
System of Transcendental Idealism
Science of Logic
The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions
Heinrich Heine
It is said that the spirits of the night are alarmed when they catch sight of the executioner’s sword: how then must they be alarmed when they are confronted by Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason! This book is the sword with which deism was put to death in Germany. Frankly, in comparison with us Germans, you French are tame and moderate. You have at most been able to kill a king . . . Immanuel Kant has stormed . . . heaven, he has put the whole crew to the sword, the Supreme Lord of the world swims ...more
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In order to grasp transcendental intuition in its purity, philosophical reflection must further abstract from this subjective [aspect] so that transcendental intuition, as the foundation of philosophy, may be neither subjective nor objective for it, neither self-consciousness as opposed to matter, nor matter as opposed to self-consciousness, but pure transcendental intuition, absolute identity, that is neither subjective nor objective.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy

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