WHY THE SPLIT: ANGLO ANALYTIC MASCULINE VS GERMAN CONTINENTAL EXPERIENTIAL FEMIN

WHY THE SPLIT: ANGLO ANALYTIC MASCULINE VS GERMAN CONTINENTAL EXPERIENTIAL FEMININE?

Kant had tried to reconcile empiricism (Hume) and rationalism (Leibniz) by grounding knowledge in the conditions of possible experience: how the mind structures what it perceives.

After Kant, philosophers divided over how to extend or replace this project:
1) One path: explain those conditions scientifically, by reference to logic, language, and empirical psychology.
2) Another path: explore those conditions intuitively, by reflecting on the experience of meaning and consciousness itself.
That split eventually hardened into analytic and continental styles.

In Other Words:
The German answer to Kant was theological,
the English answer was juridical.