Kant, Schiller and Fichte

Abstract

The search for the Logos, defined as the right or ultimate relationship of universal and particular, was a major pursuit of Romanticism. If entities or ideas similarly described denote similar objects, then the Logos may well be seen as belonging to the company of words like imagination, irony, poetry, incarnation, Aufhebung, concrete universal. The Logos, like those terms, refers to the reconciliation of opposites, of such polarities as finite-infinite, body-soul, mind-nature, passive-active, empiricism-rationalism, thing-word, particular-universal, image-idea, matter-form.

If you or I crib a little something, that’s plagiarism.

But if Samuel Taylor Coleridge cribs stuff from

Germany, don’t you feel you need another word for it?

Stanley Cavell