ABSTRACT
The German Youth Movement was a countercultural movement at the beginning of the twentieth century, somewhat similar to the 1968 movement in which many of the later German representatives of logical empiricism participated, especially Carnap and the members of the Berlin group around Reichenbach. This chapter retraces how this early cultural movement formed an important background for the cultural and socio-political views of the mentioned logical empiricists, e.g., their views about ethics, social reform and intellectual tolerance. It analyzes especially how certain trends in the youth movement were important for the later philosophical positions of the logical empiricists, such as their noncognitivism, the scientific approach to social reform, or their internationalist outlook.
