Dieter Henrich Quotes
Dieter Henrich was a German philosopher, professor at the University of Munich, and the most important interpreter of post-Kantian German Idealism of the second half of the twentieth century. Between Kant and Hegel and Constellations: The Origin of German Idealism reconstructed in unprecedented detail the philosophical milieu of Jena and Tubingen in the 1790s, in which Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Hoelderlin, and Novalis worked out the consequences of Kant's critical philosophy. The quotes below are attributed to Dieter Henrich, organized by topic.
Dieter Henrich on Knowledge
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Attributed to Dieter Henrich:
“We must understand a philosopher in his constellation, not in isolation.”
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“Reason has a unity, even if no system of reason exhausts it.”
Dieter Henrich on Mind
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“Self-consciousness is the original problem of philosophy.”
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“Kant did not solve the problem of the self; he gave us the means of stating it.”
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“Idealism is not the denial of the world but the recognition of its dependence on thought.”