German idealism

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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
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Immanuel Kant
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
hasSubMovement Fichtean idealism
German idealism self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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
Romanticism
surface form: 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
surface form: Phenomenology of Spirit

Science of Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre)
Science of Logic
System of Transcendental Idealism
opposedTo empiricism
mechanistic materialism
naive realism
startTime late 18th century

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Philosophy of Right philosophicalSchool German idealism
this entity surface form: Hegelianism
Friedrich Schiller influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Spinozism influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Spinoza, Ethics, Part I influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
the One influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Gottlieb movement German idealism
subject surface form: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Addresses to the German Nation influencedBy German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Addresses to the German Nation philosophicalSchool German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
doctrine of the I (Ich-Lehre) philosophicalTradition German idealism
subject surface form: doctrine of the I
Immanuel Hermann Fichte movement German idealism
Monadology influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Analytic of the Sublime influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
master–slave dialectic relatedTo German idealism
Ding an sich influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Schelling movement German idealism
subject surface form: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
ages of the world (Weltalter) theory philosophicalContext German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Ages of the World philosophicalTradition German idealism
Johannes Müller movement German idealism
Giordano Bruno influenced German idealism
Joseph movement German idealism
subject surface form: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Biographia Literaria influencedBy German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Weimar Classicism relatedTo German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Goethean science influencedBy German idealism
Verstehen associatedWith German idealism
chapter "Spirit" influencedBy German idealism
subject surface form: Spirit (chapter of Emerson's Nature)
Beauty influencedBy German idealism
subject surface form: Beauty (essay)
Prisms hasInfluenceFrom German idealism
In Search of Wagner influencedBy German idealism
The Poet influencedBy German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Gabriel Marcel influencedBy German idealism
Part I: The Foundations of Hegel’s Philosophy relatedTo German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
What Is Called Thinking? influencedBy German idealism
Naturphilosophie developedInPeriod German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism
Solomon Maimon influenced German idealism
this entity surface form: German Idealism