German philosophy, here taken to mean either philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz through Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein to contemporary philosophers.
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German philosophy's main achievement was a complete oeuvre on almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method, which perhaps represents the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany.
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In natural German philosophy, Schelling set himself the task of knowing the absolute, infinite spirit that lies at the basis of empirical visible nature.
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Schelling considered the absolute as a beginning capable of self-development through contradictions; in this sense, Schelling's German philosophy is characterized by some features of idealist dialectics.
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Pivotal importance for Hegelian German philosophy is the dialectical method – the doctrine that the source of development is the struggle of contradictions, that development occurs through the transition of quantitative changes into qualitative ones, that truth is concrete, etc.
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Fichte's system in the sphere of German philosophy thought is a bright lightning of a revolutionary storm in the West.
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Main sentiments of which [Nietzsche's] German philosophy consisted, are already present in the work of many gifted figures anticipating the author of Zarathustra.
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German philosophy's influence has continued in contemporary philosophy but mainly in Continental philosophy.
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German philosophy transformed the three into an essential work of economics called Das Kapital, which consisted of a critical economic examination of capitalism.
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In German philosophy he was an eclectic who combined positivism, mechanistic materialism and idealism.
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German philosophy was influenced by Eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism, and was known for his pessimism.
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The neo-Kantian school was of importance in devising a division of philosophy that has had durable influence well beyond Germany.
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German philosophy believed this task to be urgent, as he believed a form of nihilism caused by modernity was spreading across Europe, which he summed up in the phrase "God is dead".
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German philosophy believed he found his solution in the concepts of the Ubermensch and Eternal Recurrence.
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German philosophy's work continues to have a major influence on both philosophers and artists.
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Mach's German philosophy is set forth in his works Analysis of Sensations, Cognition and Delusion (1905), and others.
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Vladimir Lenin dedicated his entire book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism to the criticism of the philosophical views of Mach and Avenarius, writing that "this German philosophy serves the clergy, serves the same purposes as the German philosophy of Berkeley and Hume.
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Important German philosophy neo-Hegelians include Richard Kroner, Nicolai Hartmann, Siegfried Marck, Arthur Liebert and Hermann Glockner, while the Frankfurt School can be said to have been influenced by neo-Hegelianism.
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Spengler's German philosophy is imbued with elitism and a dislike for democracy.
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German philosophy declared the workers to be “outside of culture, ” “outside of history”; the mass, Spengler wrote, is the end of everything, “radical nothing.
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