Schopenhauer's Doctrine of Salvation in Relation to his Critique of Religion and Philosophical Teachings
Anil Dominic Batti
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Anil Dominic Batti, Schopenhauer's Doctrine of Salvation in Relation to his Critique of Religion and Philosophical Teachings (2023), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832583149
Descripción / Abstract
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788â1860) was perhaps the last polymath among the great Germanic philosophers. Switching with ease and elegance between epistemic positions and fields as diverse as idealism and empiricism, fideism and rationalism, realism and nominalism, art and religion, jurisprudence and politics, psychology and occultism, Schopenhauer erected an imposing edifice bearing testimony to his universal learning. This study is an investigation into the very conclusion of Schopenhauerâs philosophy and endeavours to answer the following question: did Schopenhauerâs doctrine of salvation issue forth organically from his intellectual output or was it annexed to his philosophy as a result of his critical engagement with religion? The labyrinthine paths through which Schopenhauer arrives at the soteriological culmination of his philosophy are subjected to critical assessment; the picture that emerges is of a philosopher who seemed convinced that he had solved some of the most pressing cosmic riddles to have tormented mankind through the ages.
Índice
- BEGINN
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Biographical Observations
- 1.1 The Context
- 1.2 Youth
- 1.3 Manhood
- 1.4 Old Age
- 1.5 Legacy
- Chapter 2: Schopenhauer as Religionsphilosoph
- 2.1 Religionsphilosophie before Schopenhauer
- 2.2 The Fundamentals of Schopenhauer’s Religionsphilosophie
- 2.3 The Fundamentals of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
- 2.4 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy and its Religious Parerga
- Chapter 3: Schopenhauer’s Critique of Religion
- 3.1 Critique as Discernment
- 3.2 Critique of the Religious Superstructure
- 3.3 Critique of Religion as a Social Construct
- 3.4 Contextualising the Critique
- Chapter 4: Comparative Religion and Orientalism
- 4.1 Theoretical Preambles
- 4.2 Schopenhauer’s Fashionable Orientalism
- Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and Religious Studies
- 5.1 Religious Studies: Historical Precursors
- 5.2 Religious Studies: A Contentious History
- 5.3 Schopenhauer and the Sociology of Religion
- 5.4 Schopenhauer and the Phenomenology of Religion
- 5.5 Schopenhauer and the Study of Myth
- 5.6 Schopenhauer’s Hermeneutics of Religion
- Chapter 6: Salvation for Cranks
- 6.1 Salvation: Taxonomic Orientations
- 6.2 Entzweiung as a Problem of Philosophy
- 6.3 Romanticism and the Problem of Entzweiung
- 6.4 Entzweiung according to Schopenhauer
- 6.5 Resolving the Entzweiung: Preliminary Steps
- Chapter 7: Ethics and Salvation
- 7.1 Salvation as Cosmic Process
- 7.2 The Salvation of Man
- 7.3 The Relation of Ethics to Salvation
- 7.4 Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Born of anti-Kantian Polemic?
- 7.5 The Cardinal Virtues
- Chapter 8: Salvation and the Character of Man
- 8.1 The Character of Man
- 8.2 Kant on the Intelligible Character of Man
- 8.3 Schopenhauer on the Intelligible Character of Man
- 8.4 The Intelligible Character and Predestination
- 8.5 The Intelligible Character and the Signs of Election
- 8.6 The Enigma Remains
- Chapter 9: Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of Salvation in Relation to his Philosophy and Critique of Religion Introductory
- 9.1 Salvation and Philosophy
- 9.2 Salvation and the Critique of Religion
- Concluding Reflections
- Bibliography