Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
Book contents
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- 5 Jacobi’s Argument and Dilemma
- 6 The Jacobi–Schelling Debate
- 7 Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism
- 8 Jacobi and the German Protestant Tradition
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
7 - Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism
from Part II - Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2023
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Book contents
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Reviews
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism
- Part II Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism
- 5 Jacobi’s Argument and Dilemma
- 6 The Jacobi–Schelling Debate
- 7 Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism
- 8 Jacobi and the German Protestant Tradition
- Part III Jacobi and the Revival of Socraticism: The Muenster Circle and Existentialism
- Part IV Jacobi’s Impact on Idealism and Romanticism
- Jacobi Sources
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines Jacobi’s critique of traditional philosophical theology and what he considered to be its conceptual annihilation of the reality of God. What emerges is that Jacobi had a refined understanding of the seductive workings of instrumental reason, proposing an alternative philosophical theology by which immediate faith in God must be confirmed in reflection.
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- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the EnlightenmentReligion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity, pp. 124 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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