Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Schüßler talks about his first contact with Paul Tillich as the subject of his dissertation and reports on the connection between his biography and the life and works of Paul Tillich.

German Idealism is the term used to describe the epoch of German philosophy from Kant to Hegel and to Schelling's late work. The publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831) are usually regarded as chronological dates.