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Kantian ethics

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An approach to moral questions deriving from the teachings and writing of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). It is characterized by an emphasis on the rational endeavour of ...

Philosophy

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Kelley L. Ross

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

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2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
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2,402 words
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...looks like various fragments of Kant's theory. German Idealists such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762–1814 ), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ( 1775–1854 ), and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770–1831 ) dispensed with things in themselves, as did the later neo-Kantians such as Wilhelm Windelband ( 1848–1915 ). Another modern tendency has been to dismiss objective morality, as was done by Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844–1900 ) and such existentialists as Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905–1980 ) and Martin Heidegger ( 1889–1976 ). That Sartre ended up...

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism   Reference library

Luca Prono

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

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2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
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...opposed Coleridge's view of the human mind as creative in favor of John Locke's theory of the mind as a passive receiver of impressions. But following Coleridge, they established correspondences between nature and spirit and the human mind that recognizes them. German post-Kantian philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling were also influential. The birth of transcendentalism was stimulated by a quarrel in the Unitarian churches of Boston, and transcendentalist texts often reveal a polemical edge. Though Unitarian ministers...

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