Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 –1831) was a leading figure in the movement of German Idealism initiated by Immanuel Kant and Hegel’s philosophy expanded on Kant’s theory of knowledge by adding a social and historical element. Kant had recognized that human beings create knowledge by using laws of reason to incorporate new sensual information cohesively [...]
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The Individual and Society
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 12, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/12/the-individual-and-society/
Kant and the Creation of Reality
The American Philosophers from the Transcendentalists to the Pragmatists were all following in the footsteps of the great German Idealist Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804). This isn’t too surprising because all of Western Philosophy follows in the footsteps of Kant. In 1781 Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason and rocked the world of philosophy. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 1, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/01/kant-and-the-creation-of-reality/
