Philosophy in Germany – Background

Germany’s religious landscape is not developing uniformly, but relatively to religion and region. This is also true of the growing diversity of religious life and the differentiation of attitudes towards religion.More ...

German philosophy has made significant contributions to the international debate, in the first instance in the context of rationalism, with Leibnitz and Wolf, and that of the historical anthropology of the Aufklärung, represented above all by Herder. Kant then shifted the basis of philosophical enquiry to concern itself with the conditions that govern the possibility of acquiring scientific knowledge and exercising the faculty of reason.More ...