German Idealism refers to the philosophical movement shaped by the works of German philosophers Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1849), Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling (1775–1854), and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). German Idealism started with the publishing of Kant's book Critique of Pure Reason, in 1781, and started to lose influence with the death of Hegel in 1831.

Authors: Fichte, Johann Gottlieb; Hegel, Wilhelm Friedrich Georg; Kant, Immanuel; Schelling, Wilhelm Joseph Friedrich; Schopenhauer, Arthur.

Books:

Fichte, J. G. The Science of Knowledge: With the First and Second Introductions (1982, in German 1794);

     -     Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Prinzipien der Wissenschaftslehre [The System of Moral Philosophy according to the Knowledge of Science]. (1798);

     -     System of Ethics (2004);

Hegel, G. W. F. Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1967, in German 1821);

     -     Phenomenology of Mind (1988, in German 1807);

Kant, I. Critique of Pure Reason (1999, in German 1781);

     -     The Critique of Judgment (2000, in German 1790);

     -     Critique of Practical Reason (2002, in German 1788);

Schelling, F. W. System of Transcendental Idealism (1978, in German 1800);

     -     Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (1988, in German 1797).