Germany's reticence to come to the rescue of the Greek government has been widely criticised across the euro zone. While those in the euro where hoping for leadership, German Chancellor Angela ...

(A2-11) The Influence of Platonism in the Justification of Norms in German Idealism and Natural Law. In the idealistic system design, the normative fundamentals of politics are discussed not only in ...

Hegel was the culminating figure of a philosophical tradition known as German Idealism. To Berlin this tradition—allied with Romanticism—melted the individual into collectives such as nation ...

Now, post-1945 German idealism was proving to be “a historical error, a deception, the moral and material failure of a generation” that was looking for a vocabulary “to find its way out of ...

Learning German in the hope of understanding the Germans better is a noble pursuit – even if you used to be Pippi Longstocking. This week Inger Nilsson, who played the anarchic Astrid Lindgren ...

Wagner and German Idealism. Professor Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Richard Wagner. The German universities of his youth were in a state of ...

Katie Terezakis, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, terezak@rit.edu. Dr. Terezakis received her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2004 from the New School for Social Research. Her ...