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. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego -… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
