German Idealism

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

Kant's revolutionary Transcendental Idealism provoked a remarkable new wave of philosophical activity in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Thinkers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel sought to advance, extend, and transcend Kant's idealistic conceptions of nature and subjectivity, and in doing so they each developed formidable and influential new philosophical systems of their own. This course focuses on the work of one or more of these post-Kantian Idealists.