Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism

This book contains the selected proceedings of a conference on Religion in German Idealism which took place in Nij- gen (Netherlands) in January 2000. The conference was - ganized by the Centre of German Idealism, which co-or- nates the research on classi

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Studies in German Idealism

Series Editor: Reinier Munk, Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Advisory Editorial Board: Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University, U.S.A. George di Giovanni, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Helmut Holzhey, University of Zürich, Switzerland Detlev Pätzold, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Robert Solomon, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

VOLUME 3

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN GERMAN IDEALISM

Edited by

WILLIAM DESMOND Catholic University of Louvain

ERNST-OTTO ONNASCH Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

and

PAUL CRUYSBERGHS Catholic University of Louvain

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW

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This book is dedicated to Ludwig Heyde (†)

CONTENTS

Preface

ix

WILLIAM DESMOND, ERNST-OTTO ONNASCH and PAUL CRUYSBERGHS Introduction

xi

WALTER JAESCHKE Philosophy of Religion after the Death of God

1

MARTIN MOORS Kant on Religion in the Role of Moral Schematism

21

DANIEL BREAZEALE “Wishful Thinking.” Concerning Fichte’s Interpretation of the Postulates of Reason in his Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung (1792)

35

LUDWIG HEYDE (†) The Unsatisfied Enlightenment. Faith and Pure Insight in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

71

STEPHEN HOULGATE Religion, Morality and Forgiveness in Hegel’s Philosophy

81

SANDER GRIFFIOEN The Finite does not Hinder. Hegel’s Philosophy of Christian Religion placed against the Backdrop of Kant’s Theory of the Sublime

111

TOM ROCKMORE Hegel on Reason, Faith and Knowledge

125

WILLIAM DESMOND Religion and the Poverty of Philosophy

139

vii

viii

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN GERMAN IDEALISM

Contributing Authors

171

Index

173

PREFACE

This book contains the selected proceedings of a conference on Religion in German Idealism which took place in Nijmegen (Netherlands) in January 2000. The conference was organized by the Centre of German Idealism, which co-ordinates the research on classical German philosophy in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Generous support of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has made this conference possible. A few months after the conference Ludwig died, and this circumstance unexpectedly delayed efforts to bring the proceedings of the conference to published form. We are now happy to present those proceedings, dedicated to the memory of the founding father of the Centre. It was a great joy to work with Ludwig; it was an even greater joy to be reckoned amongst his friends. It was part of Ludwig’s distinctive ch