The Flying Leaves by Friedrich Jacobi 1743-1819 , excerpts, part 1
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 25/09/2016

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an eighteenth century anti-rationalist, counter enlightenment writer. who lived in Germany from 1743-1819.

It is absurd for a man to say that he hates and despises men, but loves and honors Humanity. A general without a particular, a Humanity worthy of honor and love without men who are worthy of honor and love, is a fiction of the brain, a thing that has no existence.

All philosophizing is only a more extended fathoming of the invention of language