German Idealism (10)
Schleiermacher. The religious turn that idealistic metaphysics had taken
was due to the influence of Schleiermacher, the most specifically religious
of all the great philosophers. In his own system he made use of the
religious consciousness in an original and striking manner to solve the
practical and theoretical problems growing out of Kant's critical philosophy.
In the field of ethics he was the most conspicuous exponent of German
idealism. What Hegel had deduced from the
