Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism, denigrating it as the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and
Portrait of Jacobi, sometimes erroneously identified as portrait of Immanuel Kant
Jacobi painting by Johann Friedrich Eich, 1780
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epist
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
…popularizing the concept of nihilism, denigrating it as the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and the philosophical systems of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Jacobi advocated Glaube (variously translated as faith or "belief") and Offenbarung…
Portrait by Johann Gottlieb Becker, 1768
Kant's house in Königsberg in an 1842 painting
The philosopher David Hume by Allan Ramsay
Portrait of Kant by Johann Christoph Frisch, after Johann Gottlieb Becker, c. 1770