The 19th
century idealist - intellectual international lawyer was murdered by his doctrinal - formalist counterpart who rose to prominence at the beginning of the 20th century.
Not exact matches
For the issue is not simply between freedom and mechanism, as in the Kantian view, or between the personal and man's vestigial animal heritage, as nineteenth -
century personal
idealists viewed it.
Indeed it is precisely because capitalism is morally indifferent — and so productive of great miseries as well as great blessings — that many
idealists early in the nineteenth
century saw it as evil, rejected it entirely, and sought to replace it.
The ground was now laid for the culmination of modernity in Europe - the 19th
century German
idealist, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Upon his metaphysics of sex Humboldt develops his theory of genius, a theme to which the philosophers and artists of the eighteenth
century had given so much thought and which looms large in the aesthetics of
idealist and romantic thinkers alike.
Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the
idealists of the nineteenth
century put their faith.2
When Marcion, the greatest of the second -
century Christian dualists, insisted that the world was so fundamentally evil that the Creator God of the Old Testament, who was responsible for so immense a debacle, could only be a morally defective being, he was not speaking as some disillusioned
idealist: rather, he was reflecting the hard, unsentimental realism of his time.