German idealism

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idealism philosophical movement

German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in late 18th- and early 19th-century Germany, emphasizing the active, constructive role of the mind in shaping reality and including thinkers such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	idealism → philosophical movement →
coreIdea	emphasis on subject–object relation → freedom as central to rational agency → historical development of reason → priority of the self or subject in knowledge → reality is mediated by categories of thought → the mind plays an active role in constituting reality → unity of theoretical and practical reason →
countryOfOrigin	Germany →
developedFrom	Kantian philosophy →
developedIn	universities in Germany →
endTime	early 19th century →
era	modern philosophy →
field	aesthetics → epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → philosophy of history →
hasHistoricalContext	aftermath of the Enlightenment → post-Kantian philosophy → rise of Romanticism in Germany →
hasKeyConcept	Spirit (Geist) → autonomy → dialectic → freedom → intellectual intuition → phenomenology of spirit → self-consciousness → the Absolute → thing-in-itself (as problem and target of critique) → transcendental subject →
hasMainProponent	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → Immanuel Kant → Johann Gottlieb Fichte →
hasSubMovement	Fichtean idealism → Hegelian idealism → Schellingian idealism → absolute idealism →
influenced	American transcendentalism → British idealism → Marxism → absolute idealism → critical theory → existentialism → neo-Kantianism → phenomenology → process philosophy →
influencedBy	Baruch Spinoza → Christian Wolff → Enlightenment philosophy → German Romanticism → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Immanuel Kant → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Johann Gottfried Herder → transcendental idealism →
language	German →
mainRegion	German-speaking Europe →
notableWork	Critique of Pure Reason → Phenomenology of Spirit → Science of Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre) → Science of Logic → System of Transcendental Idealism →
opposedTo	empiricism → mechanistic materialism → naive realism →
startTime	late 18th century →

Referenced by (76)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ages of the World → Critique of Practical Reason → Critique of Pure Reason → Doctrine of Essence → Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose → Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature ("German Idealism") → Lectures on the Philosophy of History → On the History of Modern Philosophy → On the Will in Nature → Philosophy of Right → Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason → Science of Knowledge → Science of Logic → The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature ("German Idealism") → The System of Ethics → The World as Will and Representation → Wissenschaft der Logik → doctrine of the I →	philosophicalTradition
Analytic of the Sublime ("German Idealism") → Deus sive Natura ("German Idealism") → Deutsche Aufklärung ("German Idealism") → Ding an sich ("German Idealism") → Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata ("German Idealism") → Ethics (Spinoza) ("German Idealism") → Friedrich Schiller ("German Idealism") → German Enlightenment ("German Idealism") → Immanuel Kant → Monadology ("German Idealism") → Neoplatonism ("German Idealism") → Opera Posthuma ("German Idealism") → Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ("German Idealism") → Spinoza, Ethics, Part I ("German Idealism") → Spinozism ("German Idealism") → Transcendental Analytic ("German Idealism") → the One ("German Idealism") →	influenced
Addresses to the German Nation ("German Idealism") → Bronson Alcott ("German Idealism") → Essays: Second Series ("German Idealism") → Felix Adler → Nature (essay) ("German Idealism") → Romantic nationalism ("German Idealism") → Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("German Idealism") → Self-Reliance ("German Idealism") → The American Scholar ("German Idealism") → Thomas Carlyle ("German Idealism") → Transcendentalism ("German Idealism") → the Over-Soul → Über die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates → Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues ("German Idealism") →	influencedBy
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ("German Idealism") → Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling → G. W. F. Hegel → Immanuel Hermann Fichte → Immanuel Kant ("German Idealism") → Johann Gottfried Herder ("German Idealism (precursor)") → Johann Gottlieb Fichte ("German Idealism") → Johann Gottlieb Fichte → System of Transcendental Idealism → Wilhelm von Humboldt →	movement
Addresses to the German Nation ("German Idealism") → G. W. F. Hegel → Johann Gottlieb Fichte ("German Idealism") → Lectures on Aesthetics → Philosophy of Right ("Hegelianism") → System of Transcendental Idealism ("Schellingian idealism") →	philosophicalSchool
Transcendental Dialectic → thing-in-itself →	belongsToPhilosophicalTradition
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy → Reason and Revolution →	mainSubject
the Absolute →	field
German idealism ("Hegelian idealism") →	hasSubMovement
Critique of the Power of Judgment ("German Idealism") →	influenceOn
On the History of Modern Philosophy →	movementDiscussed
ages of the world (Weltalter) theory ("German Idealism") →	philosophicalContext
transcendental idealism →	philosophicalMovement
master–slave dialectic →	relatedTo