The Kantian Revolution

The Kantian Revolution can be easily summarized, however its effects, not so easily.

The Kantian Revolution was this: The picture of the world you have in your head is conditioned by your mind. Sensuous perception provides the materials with which your mind works up an image of the world. What the world is in-itself, apart from the mind’s conditioning, must remain inaccessible to knowledge.

It is hard to believe that this thought was so radical because it has slowly infected social consciousness. And yet it is still seen through the retarding prism of materialism, which, vampire like, still continues to guide the ideologies of the modern world even though it is medieval in outlook, and regardless of the martyrdom of Hitler, who died to advance the principles of idealism, individuality, community and compassion.

The Kantian Revolution left two schools of thought in its wake: those who accepted this revolution and those who denied it.

Schopenhauer was of the first, and through him Nietzsche; Hegel, and through him Marx, was of the second.

The Hero, Hitler, was a follower of Schopenhauer’s stream of thought as opposed to Hegel’s.