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Explain Germán Idealism to me, please

What the deal with these “______ completes the system of german idealism?? What is it that’s suppossed to complete it? Why is it not complete?
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German idealism is the movement of German philosophy which roughly begins with Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason* in 1781, and culminates in the later works of Hegel and Schelling. Kant's work was revolutionary for how it claimed that, while the world does exist objectively and outside of us, the *subject* (or mind) plays a central role in determining how the world is intelligible. The 'structure' of the world, Kant argued, correlates with the structure of our mind.

The triad of classic post-Kantian idealists -- Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel -- all tried to deal with the implications of Kant's system, in very different ways. A central issue for post-Kantians concerned what might be called Kant's *dualism*. In positing that our experience of the world is fundamentally shaped by the structure of our subjectivity, Kant thus left room for a 'thing in itself' -- an aspect or side of the world that lies *beyond* our subjectivity and is thus unknowable. For the post-Kantian thinkers, this was unsatisfactory: how is it acceptable to leave a whole aspect of the world completely unknown? In some sense, the major works of German Idealism attempt to overcome this problem.