Continental philosophies: Rationalism, romanticism, and existentialism

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Continental philosophies Rationalism,
romanticism, and existentialism

• Rationalismactive mind structures experience
• A priori knowledgeinnate
• Active mind
• Deduction
• Romanticismimportance of emotions
• Existentialismself determination
• Immanuel Kant (17241804)
• Alarmed by Hume
• Mind organizes perceptions
• A priori categories
• Causaltiy
• Noumenal vs. phenomenal
• Psychology impossible
• Anthropology

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After Kant

• George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
• Organicism
• Dialectic
• Johann Friedrich Hebart (17761841)
• Textbook of Psychology 1816
• Ideas vary in intensity
• Threshold or limen consciousness
• Ideas can inhibit, help or fuse with other ideas
  
• Apperceptive mass
• Rudolf Hermann Lotze (18171881)
• Spatial perception
• Local signs

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Romanticism

• Reaction against mechanism and reason
• Emotion and soul
• Johann Gottfried Herder (17441803)
• Human science
• JohnJacques Rousseau (17121778)
• Emotion over reason
• Learning and education
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832)
• Phenomenology

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Romanticism

• Emotions
• Phenomenology
• Unconscious
• Vitalism