ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
A
Aristotle
B
Duns Scotus
C
David Hume
D
Immanuel Kant
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It argues that Coleridge was immensely influenced by and distinguished himself from German philosophers like Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Karl Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von Hardenburg (Novalis) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge was influenced by German philosophy, in particular Kant, Fichte and Schelling (Naturphilosophie), as well as the physiology of Blumenbach and the dynamic excitation theory of life of the Brunonian system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coleridge argued that the necessary conditions of personhood (relationship, free will, reason and love) require a transcendent source of ‘personeity’. His Absolute is a primacy of Will, self-realized in Mind (Idea) and Being.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Carlyle noted poignantly that Coleridge ‘was thought to hold, he alone in England, the key of German and other Transcendentalisms’ (1851, p.

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