GERMAN IDEALISM (L43) Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Tathandlung, Divine Identity, World-Reason

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🏫Prof.SUMIOKA's One-minute Philosophy! Lesson 43 GERMAN IDEALISM

Hi, how d’you do!

“Professor SUMIOKA, what is GERMAN IDEALISM ?”

It is the thought of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel in the first half of the 19th century. They insisted that what is truly real and active is not individual people but ideas that rule them.

“What's it all about?”

Kant showed that beyond the limits of THE COGNITIVE REASON, there is THE PRACTICAL REASON. What we should ask is not what it is but what we make with it. Fichte viewed that the way to answer, namely how the person overcomes difficulties as his practice, is its personality. Therefore, it is rather SELF-ESTABLISHMENT.

While in Fichte, reality is always against ‘I,’ Schelling argued that reality and ‘I’ are originally continuous in quality. They are just both poles of THE DIVINE IDENTITY. However, as Fichte said, individuals certainly will establish each personality within it and furthermore deny the original DIVINE IDENTITY although their existences as ever belong to it. Therefore, they should return and unite again into THE DIVINE IDENTITY through arts or aesthetic geniuses.

Hegel turned Schelling‘s theory upside down. Rather abstract and monotone ideas are active subjects and they will produce various concrete realities within themselves. However, all the realities are contrary to expectations. So, ideas learn realities and grow up. This way is DIALECTIC and thus THE WORLD-REASON develops historically and spiritually.

“What do you think?”

GERMAN IDEALISM is the very thought of the revolutionary era. People who had slept in the nation awakened as individuals and defeated the old country but a new one absorbed them again. People thought they had done it themselves; but in fact, they were just made dance by the era.

“Professor SUMIOKA, I got it well, thanks!”
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