German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, and Schelling

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In this lecture I give an overview of the movement of German Idealism from Immanuel Kant and Johann Fichte to Friedrich Schelling. Special attention is given to Kant's synthetic a priori; Fichte's Ego and moral philosophy; and Schelling's naturphilosophie (philosophy of nature).
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0:00 - Introduction & Background (Bacon and Descartes)
7:16 - Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
15:10 - Johann Fichte's Science of Knowledge
31:00 - Fichte's Moral Community
35:50 - Johann von Herder and Johann von Goethe
40:56 - Friedrich Schelling's Naturphilosophie
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).