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Gerhard Ritter's Weltanschauung

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Norman Levine
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The existence of core ideas, ideas which are never altered during a person's lifetime, are overlooked by historians who exclusively concentrate on the relativity of thought. Ideas of this unchanging nature are called atomic concepts. A study of Gerhard Ritter's major themes demonstrates that ideas can be either relative or atomic. Although they received different illuminations in different historical environments, Ritter possessed a group of atomic concepts. They were the material for a basic Weltanschauung, which survived seventy-nine years of history in fluid, but unmistakable form.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 209 - 227
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1968

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