After the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, German idealism dominated philosophical thought from the early to mid 19th century in Continental Europe and the 19th century philosophical climate turned towards the thought of philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In the mid to late 19th century in Britain, philosophy was increasingly Hegelian in practice. British idealism, as taught by philosophers like F.H. Bradley and Thomas Hill Green was an extension of the German idealist mode of thought. It is this intellectual climate, that fathers of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, rebelled against the British idealist thought and formed analytic philosophy and split philosophy into continental (or German-French) and analytic (or Anglo-American) thought.
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