The Worldview of Factual Fanaticism

Wahle's book is one of the most significant symptoms of the development of worldviews in the nineteenth century. The distrust of knowledge that began with Kant ends with the complete bankruptcy of all worldviews. How right Hegel was when he said that thinking about the capacity for knowledge in Kant's sense is like trying to learn to swim without going into the water. One can only gain clarity about knowledge if one really decides to approach the things of this world boldly, if one first allows one's thinking power to take on what the world offers us. Those who criticize the capacity for knowledge and the scope of knowledge without plunging into the flow of real cognition are engaging in an activity with unsuitable means. For even what cognition means can only be seen through cognition. So, you also have to bring trust in cognition to the idea of cognition. Having this trust is the first requirement of a worldview. How to attain it, what it is based on, knowing this is as far removed from neo-Kantianism as possible.