Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics
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The Source of All Reality Is the Self
In 17 94, Johann godli fishte introduced the idea that the only certainty in the world is that the world is experienced through the self. He gives all the power to the self and effectively says that the self is the agent of everything. And this is the beginning of the modern, of the modern self. But it also goes horriy, horribly wrong in the end, because they become too self absorbed and their eagles are too inflated in the end.
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