Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po
What is German Idealism? Never studied philosophy and am looking for a layman explanation.
Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte.
Knowing the "real" world is impossible as knowledge depends on the knower. The knower can therefore only know what it is capable of knowing, and the "real" world conforms to these capacities for the knower.
Moreover, what we know depends on the historical development of concepts, so that what we know at any given time depends on that time's comprehension of itself in thought.
Trump doesn't have anything to do with this and the clip is mostly funny because of the juxtaposition of high and low.
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