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 ...more
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 ...more
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[...]but in Germany, where the loyalty of the army and the bureaucracy was the basis of a new feudalism, government posts were reserved, except for subordinate offices, for the nobility and the junkers. The common people were oppressed by the officials of the Crown, high and low, as much and even more than by the manorial stewards in former days. The German peasants had never known anything but serfdom, but now the middle classes, as well, lost everything they had gained in the course of the fou
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― The Social History of Art Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
― The Social History of Art Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
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Not only powers of intentional action, the power of intentional action is self-predicated. She who acts intentionally knows herself to have this power. The self-predication I am an intentional agent underlies and is contained in any dynamic self-predication I am doing A. Indeed, this self- predication is none other than the consciousness expressed by the word I in I am doing A. Once one recognizes this, it becomes much easier to read German Idealism.
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