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Full Idea
A crucial idea for German Idealism (from Hamann) is that apparently passive receptivity and active spontaneity are in fact different degrees of the same 'activity, and the gap between subject and world can be closed.
Gist of Idea
Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement
Source
Andrew Bowie (German Philosophy: a very short introduction [2010], 3)
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'German Philosophy: very short intro' [OUP 2010], p.38
A Reaction
The 'passive' bit seems to be Hume's 'impressions', which are Kant's 'intuitions', which need 'spontaneous' interpretation to become experiences. Critics of Kant said this implied a dualism.
Related Idea
Idea 22057 Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, 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] |