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German Idealism

Post-Kantian movement (1780s-1830s). Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel sought to complete Kant's project by unifying subject and object, mind and world, in grand systematic philosophies of Spirit.

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Hegel concept

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). The dialectic: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. History is the self-realization of Spirit (Geist). The rational is real. Most ambitious philosophical system since Aristotle — and the most contested.

Schopenhauer concept

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The world is Will — blind, purposeless striving. Life is suffering; desire is insatiable. Escape through art, compassion, and ascetic denial. Influenced Nietzsche, Wagner, and Freud.