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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Marburg School influencedBy German idealism
Doctrine of the Concept philosophicalTradition German idealism
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Critique of Judgment influenced German idealism
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Geist influencedField German idealism
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Subjective Spirit belongsToTradition German idealism
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The Ticklish Subject mainTopic German idealism
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The Ticklish Subject discusses German idealism
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The Ticklish Subject influencedBy German idealism
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Less Than Nothing mainSubject German idealism
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Less Than Nothing influencedBy German idealism
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Absolute Recoil influencedBy German idealism
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the world as representation philosophicalTradition German idealism
subject surface form: The World as Representation
Wesenslogik philosophicalTradition German idealism
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Die Weltalter genre German idealism
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Die Weltalter philosophicalMovement German idealism
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Schelling’s middle to late period influencedBy German idealism
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Franz von Baader movement German idealism
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Ungrund influenced German idealism
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Jena Romanticism influencedBy German idealism
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Jena Romantic circle influenced German idealism
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