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A thinker from this country used the Greek name Aenesidemus in a dialogue refuting a theory from Philosophy of the Elements, written by another thinker from this country. Reality is grounded in an original unity or a primordial totality of opposites according to a thinker from this country who wrote Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature. (-5[1])A thinker from this country grounded their thought in a “pure I” to avoid dogmatism and sought a doctrine of (*) science. Attempts to understand reality through reason can lead to antinomies according to a thinker (10[1])from this country. An Attempt at a Critique (-5[1])of All Revelation was written by a thinker from this country who developed the concepts of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this country, home of the author of The Phenomenology of Spirit, (10[1])G. W. F. Hegel. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Germany [or Deutschland] (The thinkers in the first line are Gottlob Ernst Schulze and Karl Leonard Reinhold. Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature is by Friedrich Willhem Joseph Schelling)
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