Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Schopenhauer marks the transition to the modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature...
...interest in the study of history. Darwin's great achievement was the spreading of the historical idea far beyond the limits of humanity. His "Origin of Species" (1859) was not the first exponent of the evolution but only one grand application of it; bringing to a focus tendencies of modern thought...
...Rise of the Modern Historical School in the years about 1815 Close relations of this School to the Romanticists...
...Schopenhaner as forming a Transition from the Romantic Philosophy to the Modern Study of the Natural Order...
...growth of the modern historical movement can be best suggested by the following incomplete list of abbreviated titles of "epochmaking" books, pioneer in very various departments of research. Such works mark the increasingly extended application of the historical method, with its accompanying idea of Evolution. to more and more regions of knowledge. as well as the growth of this Idea itself. Few of these books are technically considered. philosophical treatises. Out of the whole mass of such, and their successors in each department, the Philosophy of Evolution has grown. Dates of first editions alone are meant. The books are chosen...