The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

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 more than our own representations.

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" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.

The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

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

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