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The figure of Lessing himself made, it would seem, an equally big impression on Hegel. When Lessing began his career, there was little to no German literature, no German theater, no German literary criticism to speak of, and virtually no public for such things had they existed. Lessing carved out for himself a German equivalent of the career of a "man of letters" (an idea imported from France), and to do this he...
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...’Hegel...was looking to make himself into a "popular philosopher" who was going to apply Kantian ideas in light of the British ideas he had picked up along the way.’
The idea that Hegel originally aspired to be a “popular philosopher” is hilarious! 😆
— Sep 11, 2024 02:14PM
The idea that Hegel originally aspired to be a “popular philosopher” is hilarious! 😆
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...Hegel attempted to fuse Kant's idea of a "religion of morality" with his own critique of the fragmentation of modem life inspired by his youthful readings of Garve, Herder, and Rousseau, and out of this he hoped to produce a "popular philosophy" that would bring about, as he had put it to Schelling, the "revolution in Germany" that would follow from the "application" of Kant's philosophy.
— Sep 11, 2024 02:13PM
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...servants not properly respectful of their masters, and other questionable sorts of people.
— Sep 01, 2024 08:03AM
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There were cries against the idea of Bildung; there were even suggestions that, with all the new "reading societies" springing up across what still counted as the Holy Roman Empire, a new disease, that of "reading addiction" (Lesesucht), was arising, an ailment which was believed likely to strike impressionable young students, loose women...
— Sep 01, 2024 08:03AM
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...a thorough going reform of the world was equally required, and that the Revolution was to lead to this reform of the world.
— Aug 11, 2024 01:47PM
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The major role that Pietism played in Wiirttemberg also played a large role in this conception - despite the fact that he was not a Pietist himself and was not personally in any way attracted to Pietist ideas, Hegel was nonetheless greatly influenced by the central Pietist idea that reform of the church had not been enough and that...
— Aug 11, 2024 01:47PM
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... - Lessing even titled one of his better-known books The Education of the Human Race - and Hegel cluttered his diaries with observations on what it would mean to be such an "educator of the people," clearly imagining such a role for himself.
— Aug 10, 2024 10:49PM
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...and to do this he had first to educate and virtually create his public. Lessing admirably succeeded in almost all of his tasks; his accomplishments and his character (particularly, his uncompromising honesty about himself) made him the uncontested hero of German literary culture. In this sense, he was the absolute paradigm of an "educator of the people," a Volkserzieher...
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