From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

But he had three objections to Kant’s restrictions on the pure concepts.

rejected the Enlightenment

Here we have the most startling and influential significance of the new turn which Kant gave to philosophy. It is the turn away from the external world of independent nature to the inner world of the activity and powers of the mind as the key to what we experience and what we know.

as a philosophy confined to and dominated by reason—by mathematics, logic, mathematically formulated scientific laws, and by abstract natural rights.

absolute mind or spirit.

absolute idealism.

he wants to build upon Kant and upon the Kantian turn in philosophy, upon the primacy which Kant gave to the pure rational concepts. Hegel wants to keep this primacy which concepts have over sense impressions. But he also wants to build upon the Romantics, and to be able to be expansive, unlimited, like the Romantics and to incorporate their new, m

All this began with the Kantian turn in philosophy, in which the object is always in some degree the creation of the subject.

They were disillusioned with the promises of progress and the perfectibility of the human race made by the age of optimism.