There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel. - Frederick C. Beiser
Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
- Frederick C. Beiser
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. - Frederick C. Beiser
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.
The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from… - Frederick C. Beiser
The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from…
The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others a… - Frederick C. Beiser
The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others a…
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as… - Frederick C. Beiser
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as…
To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. - Frederick C. Beiser
To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" tha… - Frederick C. Beiser
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" tha…
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;… - Frederick C. Beiser
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;…
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing mo… - Frederick C. Beiser
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing mo…
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