By Lewis White Beck
It is a finished background of German philosophy from its medieval beginnings to the past due 18th century. In exploring the spirit of German highbrow lifestyles and its uniqueness from that of different nations, the textual content devotes entire chapters to 4 of the good philosophers - Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Lessing and Kant - and commonly examines many others, together with Albertus Magnus, Meister Eckhart, Paracelsus, Kepler, Mendelssohn, Wolff and Herder. wondering reasons of philosophy by way of the racial or ethnic personality of its exponents, Beck's end is that German philosophy constructed as a sequence of various responses to the historic stories of the German humans. The peculiarities of German philosophy can be seen within the gentle of German political difficulties and academic buildings. specifically Beck stresses the significance of the connections among philosophy and Germany's highbrow, literary, non secular and political heritage.
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