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Single Idea 22048

[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism ]

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

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]