Frederick C. Beiser Quotes About Idealism

• The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Mean, Nihilism

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Father, Discovery, Ego

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Struggle, Nihilism, Subjectivism

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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