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Philosophies incompatible with reality, like German Idealism, have as grand precursor: Kant, whose grand precursor was Luther. The latter became the socio-political agitation against Western (Hispanic-Greco-Latin) Civilization, pretending that interpretation of sacred texts can happen under any authority including one's own conscience. Paradoxically, by underlining the concept of a nature corrupted by the fall, he proposed the impossibility of adequately articulating faith and all reason; factually excluding the exercise of transcendent self-foundation that is philosophy. By sidelining reason for a vaguely defined faith, autonomy of that faith sediments into autonomy of reason and morality, giving birth to modern subjectivity. Hence, it is no surprise that the protestant current has generated tens of thousands of reformation movements; one of them being Pietism, the reform within the reformation. That conception, under which Kant was educated, was another example eminent from the internal movement of reform. Nevertheless, understanding this total incapacitation of reason could not be efficacious, Kant consciously prescinded the classic philosophic reflection to create a new reflexive exercise. Parallelly, his discard of metaphysical and moral fundamentations as a starting point towards non-material affirmations, along with his careful reading of Hume, have been used to misinterpret his new reflexive exercise as skeptic philosophy.

It is NOT a coincidence that German Idealism was formed only after the Spanish Baroque ended, because Hispanic literature of that era lessoned humans to survive and preserve themselves in a deceit, by making them compatible with reality and avoiding idealisms. Let us NOT forget, German Idealism was the matrix of two aberrant revolutions in EUROPE: The French Revolution that disparaged Europeans, and the Nazi Revolution with its failure to anticipate its tragic defeat.