German Idealism The Movement Characterized. The term German Idealism refers to a phase of intellectual life that had its origin in the Enlightenment as modified by German conditions. English and French representatives of the Enlightenment, giving precedence to sensation, had become empiricists and skeptics. They viewed the world as a great machine, adopted hedonism as their ethics, and ...

Ancient Wisdom for the modern seeker: Greek mystery religion, Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, Mythology.