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Single Idea 21463

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

Full Idea

Hamann, Herder and Jacobi are central figues in the reaction against Enlightenment.

Gist of Idea

Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment

Source

Sebastian Gardner (Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason [1999], 10 'immediate')

Book Ref

Gardner,Sebastian: 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' [Routledge 1999], p.330

A Reaction

From a British perspective I would see Hume as the leading such figure. Hamann emphasised the neglect of the role of language. Jacobi was a Christian.

The 6 ideas from 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason'

21443 Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]
21444 Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]
21453 Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]
21460 Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]
21463 Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]
21459 Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]