Abstract
In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant asks what we are to do, what we can hope for, and what we can know. He then places these questions on the pedestal of all inquiry into the world.
However, his one-time pupil Johann Gottfried von Herder disagrees with this approach and opposes the critique that before we can even begin to inquire into the world around us, we must first pose the primordial question, namely the question of man. Who is man? That is the central question of this paper.
Although Herder is not much thematized today, I believe he can still bring much new to contemporary investigations. Together, then, we will trace how the man of reason becomes the man of speech and, at the same time, how the rationalist philosophy of I.
Kant derives Herderian Romanticism. In the conclusion of the paper itself, we will then outline what possible implications and applications Herder's conception of man might have today.