Wrote a "History of human soul, in periods and peoples"

Peoples (Volker) were characterised by shared language and historical traditions
Volkgeist - the "personality" or character of a group of people

His orientation is characterised by: populism, expressionism, pluralism (Berlin, 1976).

-Foreshadows Hermeneutics:

-Self understanding is always against a context of cultural understanding

From Kant, the notion of human Will was central to Fichte, Schelling and, certainly

 G.F. Hegel (1770-1831)

Addressed most pressing questions of: the absolute, the ineffable soul, Art, and Religion

-Based on Kant's phenomena 'subjective' set out to lay bare the naked truths

'Reasons' replace 'causes' as response to Hume's critique

anticipates (influences) Freud's notions of ego (& id), stages of development, ...

-Soul develops historically through stages 'beginning of spirit'-mere being,

unable to reflect on self nor assimilate objects through the acquisition of sensuous

consciousness, sense perception, and intellect

 -Influenced Marx