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Dieter Henrich Quotes on Knowledge

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Dieter Henrich on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Dieter Henrich:

    “Self-consciousness is the original problem of philosophy.”

  • Attributed to Dieter Henrich:

    “Kant did not solve the problem of the self; he gave us the means of stating it.”

  • Attributed to Dieter Henrich:

    “We must understand a philosopher in his constellation, not in isolation.”

  • Attributed to Dieter Henrich:

    “Reason has a unity, even if no system of reason exhausts it.”