Understanding the Sick and the Healthy

Understanding the Sick and the Healthy is an attack on German Idealist philosophy. The follower of Idealist philosophy is presented as a paralytic patient who is cured by "New Thinking." Idealist philosophy, in the opinion of FR, is more than just philosophical error, it is the sickness of the whole person. "Common sense," on the other hand, is an expression of the health of the whole person. According to German Idealist philosophy, the whole world is reduced to the perceiving self and must, therefore, be distinguished from what it appears. The "New Thinking" of common sense traces experience back to the world and back to the experience of God. The true subjects of philosophy are the World, God, and Man.

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