The Flying Leaves by Friedrich Jacobi 1743-1819 , excerpts, part 2
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2016-10-23

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was critical to the intellectualism of the Enlightenment. Jacobi was called by some the German Plato because of the high religious tone that characterized his writings. He is ranked, and justly, among the philosophers of modern Germany, although his philosophy, far from shaping itself into a system, denies, – and that denial  may be regarded as one of its leading characteristics, – on philosophical grounds, the possibility of a system, and maintains, that any system of philosophy carried to its legitimate results must lead to fanaticism. He vindicated the affective part of man’s nature, which the Kantian exaltation of pure reason had seemed to disparage, at least to neglect, and gave to feeling its due place and authority as a medium and interpreter of truth.