This thinker wrote that the title goal could be accomplished if philosophers became the educators of citizens in his essay "How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People.
This thinker wrote that the title goal could be accomplished if philosophers became the educators of citizens in his essay "How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People." One work by this thinker inquires whether there is "a certain progress in the inclinations of the human species?" and argues that Luther, Gustavus Adolphus, and Peter the Great are the three most significant reformers of modern times.  A student of Johann Georg Hamann, this philosopher developed an early theory of interpretation in his On Thomas Abbt's Writings. This author of This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity wrote in another work that the title faculty is something that humans shared with animals, and argued that minds are composed of "forces" in his On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul. For 10 points, identify this philosopher who authored a Treatise on the Origin of Language, an anti-systematic 18th century thinker.
This thinker wrote that the title goal could be accomplished if philosophers became the educators of citizens in his essay "How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People.
Johann Gottfried von Herder