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Single Idea 22010

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy ]

Full Idea

After the French Revolution, philosophy suddenly became the key rallying point for an entire generation of German intellectuals, who had been reading Kant as the harbinger of a new order.

Gist of Idea

The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy

Source

Terry Pinkard (German Philosophy 1760-1860 [2002], Pt II Intro)

Book Ref

Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.84

A Reaction

Kant was a harbinger because he offered an autonomous status to each individual, rather than being subservient to a social order.

The 5 ideas from Terry Pinkard

22002 Wolff's version of Leibniz dominated mid-18th C German thought [Pinkard]
22021 Romantics explored beautiful subjectivity, and the re-enchantment of nature [Pinkard]
22036 In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]
22048 Idealism is the link between reason and freedom [Pinkard]
22010 The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy [Pinkard]