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>Man is nature's creative backward glance upon itself.

- Friedrich Schlegel

Was Germany between around 1750 and 1820 the absolute peak of world civilisation?

Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Moritz, Wieland, Mendelssohn, Kant, Goethe, Fichte, Schiller, Schlegel, Schlegel, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Holderlin, Novalis, Humboldt, Hegel.

How can we return to such patrician times?

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>>6097229
>the absolute peak of world civilisation
why does there need to be a peak
every decade has something worthwhile in it and every place has a chance of a worthwhile person to be there

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>idealism

>> No.6097373

>>6097358
out of a set of entities, there must be a greatest and a least. There actually has to be a peak—it's in the nature of existence.

>> No.6097397

>>6097229
> Authoritarian police state that was Prusssia
> Peak of any civilization

>> No.6097671

>>6097397
>implying authoritarianism doesn't lead to great art

>> No.6097698

>>6097229
but dey woz raped by napollo

>> No.6097708

>>6097229
No, ancient Greece was the absolute peak. Monty Python put this debate to rest decades ago.