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Immediate Experience, Mystical ‘Encounters’ and the ‘Voice’ of God: Palmquist’s Critical Mysticism and Kant’s Theory of Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2020

Lawrence Pasternack*
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University

Abstract

In this brief commentary, I focus on Part II of Kant and Mysticism, where Stephen Palmquist explores the space for mystical experience in Kant. In particular, I focus on (a) what Palmquist calls ‘immediate experience’ or ‘encounters’; (b) what he calls the ‘supervening’ of religious experience on ordinary experience; and (c) moral conscience as the ‘voice’ of God.

Type
Author Meets Critic
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Kantian Review

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References

Oakes, Robert (1973) ‘Noumena, Phenomena, and God’. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 4(1), 30–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Palmquist, Stephen (2019) Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason’s Light. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.Google Scholar