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Single Idea 20950

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

Full Idea

German Idealism aims to demonstrate that our thinking relates to a nature which is intelligibly structured in the same way as our thinking is structured.

Gist of Idea

German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure

Source

Andrew Bowie (Introduction to German Philosophy [2003], 3 'Limits')

Book Ref

Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.58

A Reaction

Now that's an idealism I might buy into. Frege thought his logic was mapping rational reality. My angle is that we are a product of this 'reality', so we should expect our thinking to be similarly structured. Reason is derived from nature.

Related Idea

Idea 20951 The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie]

The 38 ideas with the same theme [reality is an ultimate unity of all ideas]:

21971 Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality [Kant]
22067 Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis]
22032 Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard]
21966 Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself [Fichte]
21967 There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness [Fichte]
21969 Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness [Fichte]
20951 The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie]
21964 Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte]
21968 Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte]
22300 Existence is just a set of relationships [Hegel]
21774 Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8928 The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited [Hegel]
8929 In the Absolute everything is the same [Hegel]
8934 Being is Thought [Hegel]
21972 Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
22038 Hegel's non-subjective idealism is the unity of subjective and objective viewpoints [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22044 Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence [Pinkard on Hegel]
21464 The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised [Hegel, by Gardner]
20954 The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted [Hegel, by Bowie]
21975 The absolute idea is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and all truth [Hegel]
21976 The absolute idea is the great unity of the infinite system of concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
22084 Authentic thinking and reality have the same content [Hegel]
22074 We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]
21925 For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]
22045 Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]
22072 Schelling always affirmed the absolute status of freedom [Schelling, by Courtine]
19447 The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature' [Feuerbach]
23044 All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known [Green,TH, by Muirhead]
6404 British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself [Bradley, by Grayling]
22299 Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it [Bradley, by Potter]
21343 Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance [Bradley, by Heil]
22055 The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]
22054 German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]
22056 Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]
20950 German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie]
22332 German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality [Glock]
21911 Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism [Lewis,PB]
21912 Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism [Lewis,PB]