TO THE QUESTION OF THE HIGHEST FORMS OF COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IN GERMAN IDEALISM OF THE XIX CENTURY

The problem of intellectual contemplation is considered in the context of the study of human cognitive abilities in German philosophy of the XIXth century, primarily the studies of Schelling. The influence of the aesthetic world view on the understanding of this phenomenon among German romanticists is emphasized. It is analyzed the views of Fr. Schleiermacher, where from his viewpoint contemplation is “given” not in poetry, but in religion, it is distinguished the criticism of the aesthetic intuition of the romanticists by Hegel, as well as his discrepancy with Schelling regarding the place and role of intellectual contemplation in the structure of cognitive activity.