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Continental Philosophy Essay

Continental Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy


Continental Philosophy
Continental philosophy, so named because it was the dominant school of thought in continental Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originated as a response Hegel’s idea of Absolute Idealism. Comprised of various schools of thought, continental philosophy is generally identified with one of two major traditions of modern Western philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology (Moore-Bruder, 2005, p. 160).
Absolute Idealism
The philosophy of Absolute Idealism is itself a response to Kant’s philosophy “that we can have knowledge only of the world of experience and can have no knowledge of things ‘as they are in themselves’”. Absolute Idealism encompasses the belief that “reality is the expression of infinite or absolute thought or consciousness” (Moore-Bruder, 2005, p. 143). Absolute Idealism tried to reach an integrated idea of all reality that gives meaning to every......


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