Single Idea 21911

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism]

Full Idea

At the University of Jena, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling critically developed aspects of Kant's philosophy, each in his own way, thereby giving rise to the movement known as Absolute Idealism, see reality as universal God-like self-consciousness.

Gist of Idea

Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism

Source

Peter B. Lewis (Schopenhauer [2012], 2)

Book Reference

Lewis, Peter B.: 'Schopenhauer' [Reaktion Books 2012], p.53


A Reaction

Is asking how anyone can possibly have believed such a bizarre and ridiculous idea a) uneducated, b) stupid, c) unimaginative, or d) very sensible? It sounds awfully like Spinoza's concept of God. Also Anaxagoras.

Related Idea

Idea 20110 Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski]