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| | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi |
 | | Jacobi's veiled message was that the adepts of this new cultural phenomenon had failed to escape the rationalism of the philosophers, since the rebellious new humanism they advocated made sense only on the presupposition that the philosophers's conception of reality was the right one. |
 | | Jacobi rejects it off-hand on the ground that, as a matter of fact, a subject could not be aware of himself — aware also, therefore, of the alleged subjectivity of some of his representations — without defining his ‘self’ in opposition to some admittedly external object, i.e. |
 | | Jacobi responded with a pamphlet of his own (Jacobi, 1782) in which he defended Müller's position — not because he had any sympathy for Catholicism, or because he was opposed to secularism, but because he thought that the Popes's spiritual despotism was much to be preferred to the secular, allegedly enlightened, despotism of the princes. |
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