The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary.

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

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

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 and nature.