tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post7801353518129466751..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: Pantheism controversyskholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-26962495491697770522010-06-25T21:46:18.579-07:002010-06-25T21:46:18.579-07:00The link here is Schelling, particularly later Sch...The link here is Schelling, particularly later Schelling. (Harman just put up a post saying how much he dislikes the move of saying, "ah, but you haven't considered the <i>later</i> work of philosopher X..."; it's undeniable that this kind of remark reeks of pedantry, but Schelling really is a figure of whom it could be justly made). As is well known, Kierkegaard (not to mention Marx and Bakunin and Feuerbach and all sorts of others) attended Schelling's late Berlin lectures on 'positive philosophy'; among these were lectures on the 'philosophy of mythology' and the 'philosophy of revelation.' (This also had a strong influence of Rosenzweig, who once remarked something to the effect that if Schelling's book <i>The Ages of the World</i> had been completed, no one would have cared about his own masterpiece <i>The Star of Redemption</i> except Jews). It's pretty clear that Schelling got a great deal of his inspiration from Jacobi, who saw the philosophy / theology divide in perhaps the starkest terms since some of the old medievals. (Not that the division is seen in the same way, not that he would have put it like this). Isaiah Berlin devoted a lot of attention to Jacobi's contemporaries of the counter-enlightenment, Hamann and Herder, but not as much on Jacobi, alas. However, the Stanford article I linked to above is good on him, as is <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/jacobi/" rel="nofollow"> this one </a> from the IEP.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-57296790287684336782010-06-25T15:37:43.886-07:002010-06-25T15:37:43.886-07:00I think a lot more needs to be said about Jacobi, ...I think a lot more needs to be said about Jacobi, in general. George di Giovanni made an offhand comment in his class on 19th-century philosophy that Kierkegaard basically got it all from Jacobi. If that's true, Jacobi becomes a hugely influential figure, since we see Kierkegaard's footsteps all over the place in 20th-century thought.Amodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15978621252917667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-91579344760956218052010-06-23T16:27:48.981-07:002010-06-23T16:27:48.981-07:00Thanks for opening this up a bit for me. I didn&#...Thanks for opening this up a bit for me. I didn't know that detail about the salto mortale - that Jacobi had judged Lessing to be already upside down when he invited him to take the leap. Which makes the leap a kind of half-flip (back to the possibility of belief rather than a lunge into some new position).<br /><br />-JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com