By Edward Allen Beach
ISBN-10: 0791409732
ISBN-13: 9780791409732
This ebook explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and hermeneutical theories of Schelling's ultimate process about the nature and that means of non secular mythology. this attitude is no surprise in view that Schelling looked faith (not technology or philosophy) as embodying the main entire manifestation of fact.
Beach examines Schelling's novel try to account for the altering ancient types of faith by way of a posh concept of dynamic non secular powers, or "potencies." He indicates that those usually are not mere representations, principles, or projected emotions created through historic myth-makers for the good thing about a credulous population. as an alternative, seashore demonstrates that those potencies will be obvious as animate powers inhabiting the subconscious strata of a people's collective brain.
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42 It is important also to notice the strategies of argument that Schelling directed specifically against naturalism and Euhemerism, for these strategies shed much light both on the central reasons for his rejection of allegorism and on his conception of how genuine symbols function. What he did deny was that these physical objects or qualities had furnished the original and continuing motives that inspired worship and the telling of myths. And yet no one supposed that Christianity was for that reason a nature religion.
23 Myths were told in order to represent on an esoteric level the symbols' deeper meanings. Similarly, the speculations about a primordial monotheism or pantheism were rooted in seemingly axiomatic ideas about both the essence of religion and the nature of early humanity. But how, Schelling asked, could any of these theories be upheld except on the prior basis of a definitive understanding of religious meaning as such? In order to deal with mythology in a systematic manner, therefore, it was incumbent on thinkers first of all to work out and defend a comprehensive philosophical basis.
Schelling's essay cites H. ) would count as a myth in the strict sense. These lectures on art were thoroughly Spinozistic in both content and style, even to the extent of being organized in terms of numbered "Propositions" followed by rationalistic deductions, with occasional "Elucidations" and "Corollaries," etc. "20 These determinations, appearing in innumerable permutations throughout nature as well as human history and culture, are of three basic types—the "affirmed condition'' or "real Potency" (roughly equivalent to Spinoza's natura naturata), the Page 33 "affirming activity" or "ideal Potency" (natura naturans), and the "indifference point" that unites both.
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