All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

- Frederick C. Beiser

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 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

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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;…

- 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…

- Frederick C. Beiser