10. Romantic Idealism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents XI
4. Book Five. Building the German Tradition
5. 1. Leibniz and the Presuppositions of German Thought 3
6. 2. Leibniz and the Mathematical Ordering of the Universe 30
7. 3. The German Aufklärung 50
8. 4. The Romantic Appeal to Experience 76
9. 5. Kant’s Pre-Criticai Philosophy of Science 106
10. 6. Kant’s Critical Philosophy of Science 128
11. 7. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: The Theory of Ethics 147
12. 8. Kant’s Critique of Judgment: Teleology and Aesthetics 162
13. 9. Kant’s Philosophy of Politics and History 177
14. 10. Romantic Idealism 192
15. 11. Fichte and Idealistic Nationalism 208
16. 12. Aesthetic Idealism: Die Romantik—Friedrich von Schlegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schleiermacher 231
17. 13. Schelling: Nature, Art, and Existence 247
18. 14. The Hegelian Synthesis: The Idealism of Social Experience 276
19. 15. The Achievement of Hegel 305
20. 16. Romantic Reinterpretations of Religion 332
21. 17. Religious and Social Philosophies of the German Forty-Eighters 358
22. 18. Existential and Dialectical Materialism: Marx and Engels 377
23. Book Six. Consolidating the Revolution
24. I. The Problems of Integrating French Culture
25. 1. The Vision of the Revolution and the Protest of Tradition 415
26. 2. The Bourgeois Compromise: Spiritualism and Eclecticism 440
27. 3. Extending the Revolution 449
28. 4. The Comtean Synthesis and the Organization of the Positivist Tradition 474
29. II. British Problems—Tradition and Individualism
30. 5. The Conservative Compromise: Burke, Newman, and Coleridge 485
31. 6. Scottish Realism and Common Sense 510
32. 7. Radical Liberalism: Bentham and James Mill 532
33. 8. John Stuart Mill and the Working-Out of Empiricism 554
34. 9. Utilitarian Social Philosophy 589
35. 10. The Working-Out of Individualistic Liberalism: John Stuart Mill’s Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion 607
36. 11. The Reconstruction of Utilitarian Ethics 637
37. Index 667