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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]
| 22055 | The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie] |
| 22049 | Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [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] |
| 20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
| 20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
| 20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
| 20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |