Footnotes2Plato

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Why German Idealism Matters (The Side View)

My friend and colleague Adam Robbert has just launched The Side View. There is a ton of content on the site already, including articles and podcasts. Listen to Adam’s short description of the site’s aim here.

Here’s a link to my contribution, “Why German Idealism Matters,” wherein I briefly lay out the transformative contributions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

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October 4, 2018

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Fichte, Hegel, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, reason, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling

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Matthew David Segall

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aesthetics, Consciousness, ecology, evolution, freedom, German Idealism, logos, metaphysics, mind, nature, Naturphilosophie, Ontology, philosophy, science, Spirit, world-soul

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Consciousness between Science and Philosophy (response to Philip Goff on panpsychism) – Footnotes2Plato

October 30, 2020

[…] think it is fair for Goff to leave idealism off his map of reasonable philosophical positions. Idealism matters. That said, he is correct that we cannot perform an empirical test to determine which of these four […]

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