The philosopher was one of the main representatives of German idealism. He formed his philosophy with the transition to Romanticism. It developed a speculative nature Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling philosophy of the hierarchy of natural forces. This approach led to a ...

The philosopher Georg WF Hegel applies not only as the most important representatives of German idealism. He developed on the basis of Kant's criticism his metaphysical idealism. His main work is the "science teaching", in which he outlines the basic ...

The German theologian and philosopher understood God as the creator of the world, but not later intervene in world affairs. For Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, religion was the "feeling of absolute dependence niger" from God. His religion Schleiermacher described in ...

The writer was a poet and storyteller with a central role in the Sturm und Drang period. In his literary theoretical work, he calls for an open form and the tragicomic drama for comedy. Just as his literary materials relating ...

The writer was important poet, translator, theologian and philosopher of history and culture of the Weimar Classics. He was one of the most influential thinkers of his time and, with Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, ...

The philosopher and writer Johann Georg Hamann turned against the rationalist Enlightenment philosophy and sat out his Socratic reason. He pursued an understanding of the limitations of the human spirit. After him the sensual knowledge is crucial to the intellectual ...

The philosopher was the founder of the criticism and the transcendental. To his main topic is the philosophical metaphysics. He changed the definition of the concept of traditional metaphysics, which he recognized as the science of the limits of human ...