《18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant》.docVIP

18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant First published Sun Mar 10, 2002; substantive revision Wed Apr 4, 2007 In Germany, the eighteenth century was the age of enlightenment, the age, that is, that called for the independence of reason. Although the ethos of this age found its clearest (and certainly its most famous) articulation towards the end of the century with Immanuel Kant and his critical philosophy, he was not the first to issue this call. Instead, that task fell to Christian Thomasius (Thomas) at the end of the seventeenth century. It was then taken up and further developed in a