German Idealism
After Kant. Hegel's dialectic and the movement of spirit, Fichte and Schelling, and the system-building that Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche all defined themselves against.
Part of Philosophy
14 moments in this segment.
- - Kant: On Metaphysical Knowledge (Wireless Philosophy). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). The Critique of Pure Reason and the categorical imperative, the hinge on which modern philosophy turns.
- - Kant & Categorical Imperatives (Crash Course). Duty, the moral law, and acting on universalizable maxims.
- - Kant's Categorical Imperative (deontology). Kantian deontology is about rules and duties. Kant argued for an ultimate moral principle called The Categorical Imperative. It says that one must only act on principles (or "maxims") that could be universalized. This means they must still be rational even if everyone were to use them.
- - Kant pt. 2 - The Actual Introduction (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - Hegel pt. 1 - Introduction (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - Schopenhauer pt. 1 - Metaphysics & Love (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831). The dialectic, the unfolding of Spirit through history, and the system that swallowed everything.
- - Hegel: dialectical philosophy (Overthink). Thesis, antithesis, and the unfolding of Spirit.
- - Hegel's God (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - Schopenhauer pt. 2 - Ethics (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
- - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860). The World as Will and Representation, blind striving, suffering, and the consolations of art. This photograph dates from 1859.
- - Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). Phenomenology: "to the things themselves", the rigorous study of consciousness as it appears.
- - Schopenhauer on suffering and the will to nothingness. The second of the 2025 Gifford Lectures takes up Schopenhauer's argument that it would be better for the world not to exist, and asks what a consistent pessimism actually commits one to.
