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...following not only this but all the later lectures of the course, it will be important to bear in mind the substance of the following summary of Kant's doctrine...
...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
Professor Royce, in his lecture last evening on "The Romantic School in Philosophy," abandoned, after a brief summary of the doctrines of Kant and Fichte, the technical discussions of philosophical systems for a comparison of the literary relations of the period with the thought of the time...
...Summary of Kant and Fichte...
This phase of thought has its embodiment in Fichte. His was a life of bitter conflicts and higher aims. In early life he was a Spinozist, but the study of Kant brought about a change in him. He became Kant's follower and rose to fame. His doctrine, known as subjective idealism would be better classed as ethical idealism. The lecture closed with a discussion of Fichte's "Vocation...