Single Idea 22820

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems]

Full Idea

It was an early Romantic idea that there is necessarily a plurality of systems in which individuality is expressed; for a complete system would destroy freedom.

Gist of Idea

Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom

Source

Vittorio Hösle (A Short History of German Philosophy [2013], 7)

Book Reference

Hösle,Vittorio: 'Short History of German Philosophy' [Princeton 2013], p.107


A Reaction

I'm not clear why you are free because you are locked into system that differs from that of other people. True freedom seems to be either no system, or continually remaking one's own system. Why is such freedom valuable? Freedom v truth?