Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

scholars have noted Fichte’s explicit mention of his debt to Spalding,^70 the use of Fichtean terminology in Spalding has passed ...

that the essential features of religion relate to the‘practical know- ledge’of the benevolent ruler of everything, to morality a ...

morality, also called‘the great law of justice’.^81 Through the whole book, the quest for happiness and the need for morality ap ...

provide one answer. If humans need mutual recognition to become individuals who can affirm the rule of law and live in a society ...

recognizing a rule and a ruler, that is, a kind of law. The persuasion regarding the relevance of religion thus relies on the ev ...

God promotes both well-being and virtue, he can follow virtue. Here, I think, an argument parallel to Pietism can be detected si ...

To evaluate Spalding’s relationship to the preceding theological tradition, some other passages of his work need to be mentioned ...

recognition is for Spalding a fairly autonomous entity; at this point, he approaches the English idea of‘acknowledgement’and dif ...

twist that connects Spalding with both Kant and Schleiermacher. At the same time, his view of generic religious recognition assu ...

concerns the idea of property. Like Fichte, Hegel considers that property rights do not emerge absolutely but in relation to oth ...

recognition.^116 In the following, I will only highlight some important passages and discuss Hegel’s relationship to the broader ...

takes place in this reality through relative harmony in which persons help one another and labour beyond their own needs.^124 He ...

somebody who acquires (erwerbend).^133 The structures of acquiring (Erwerb) are manifold and lead to contracts and property.^134 ...

love in earlier writings. At the same time, love is not isolated from the struggle as they are both needed for the synthesis.^13 ...

How does Hegel’s concept of recognition relate to the long history of religious recognition? To this question, I only give some ...

than Augustine’s recollection. A person’s identity is reconstituted and discovered in a new manner through relating to the other ...

Der christliche Glaube(often calledGlaubenslehre) has had a formative influence on modern theology. We willfirst look at thefina ...

based on the feeling of absolute dependence. A religious recognition of this assumption must occur a priori, as a realization of ...

can be debated. In some sense, (iv) mutuality is assumed, as Schleiermacher earlier speaks about how humans perform the‘painful ...

At the same time Schleiermacher emphasizes that every dogmatic treatment should proceed from the individual consciousness.^161 T ...