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Full Idea
Idealism was conceived as a link between reason and freedom.
Gist of Idea
Idealism is the link between reason and freedom
Source
Terry Pinkard (German Philosophy 1760-1860 [2002], 14 Conc)
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.366
A Reaction
I'm beginning to see the Romantic era as the Age of Freedom, which followed the Age of Reason. This idea fits that picture nicely. Pinkard says that paradoxes resulted from the attemptl
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