Jacqueline Mariña
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199206377
- eISBN:
- 9780191709753
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206377.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Often referred to as the father of modern theology, F. D. E. Schleiermacher occasioned a revolution in theology having a decisive impact on all subsequent theology. This book argues that ...
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Often referred to as the father of modern theology, F. D. E. Schleiermacher occasioned a revolution in theology having a decisive impact on all subsequent theology. This book argues that Schleiermacher's philosophical ethics constitutes a completely original project, and is arguably his most important achievement. The book examines Schleiermacher's claim that the self relates to the ‘whence’ of all that is through the ground of self-consciousness, and shows how this understanding allowed Schleiermacher to develop a philosophical system integrally linking religion and ethics. Because this whence relates to self-consciousness in the way of a formal cause, the most important criteria for what constitutes genuine religion are the ethical fruits expressive of a proper relation to the divine. In Christian Faith, Schleiermacher argues that insofar as the personal self-consciousness has been transformed through openness to this whence, the actions that arise from it, too, will be different from those of the former self. This book is an analysis of how Schleiermacher conceived of this transformation, the conditions of its possibility, and the nature of its effects. This is accomplished through an examination of his metaphysics of the self, especially Schleiermacher's understanding of the immediate self-consciousness and its relation to the divine causality, the nature of self-consciousness and personal identity, the nature of agency, and the relation between self and society. This book demonstrates that Schleiermacher's achievement offers a compelling, live option for contemporary debates concerning the relation of religion and morality.Less
Often referred to as the father of modern theology, F. D. E. Schleiermacher occasioned a revolution in theology having a decisive impact on all subsequent theology. This book argues that Schleiermacher's philosophical ethics constitutes a completely original project, and is arguably his most important achievement. The book examines Schleiermacher's claim that the self relates to the ‘whence’ of all that is through the ground of self-consciousness, and shows how this understanding allowed Schleiermacher to develop a philosophical system integrally linking religion and ethics. Because this whence relates to self-consciousness in the way of a formal cause, the most important criteria for what constitutes genuine religion are the ethical fruits expressive of a proper relation to the divine. In Christian Faith, Schleiermacher argues that insofar as the personal self-consciousness has been transformed through openness to this whence, the actions that arise from it, too, will be different from those of the former self. This book is an analysis of how Schleiermacher conceived of this transformation, the conditions of its possibility, and the nature of its effects. This is accomplished through an examination of his metaphysics of the self, especially Schleiermacher's understanding of the immediate self-consciousness and its relation to the divine causality, the nature of self-consciousness and personal identity, the nature of agency, and the relation between self and society. This book demonstrates that Schleiermacher's achievement offers a compelling, live option for contemporary debates concerning the relation of religion and morality.
John Finnis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199580095
- eISBN:
- 9780191729416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.003.0014
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter offers a reflection on the treatment in Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980) of the question how the basic human goods and requirements of practical reasonableness are related to, or in ...
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This chapter offers a reflection on the treatment in Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980) of the question how the basic human goods and requirements of practical reasonableness are related to, or in Mark Murphy's words ‘detachable from’, the rational affirmability of God's existence and nature. (About that nature, the book was too austere and agnostic.) There is ‘detachability’ just to the extent that (say) physics can be done well without raising and pressing further questions about the origins of physical realities and laws. But rationality norms applicable across the whole field of human questioning require that when those questions are raised, in the appropriate (philosophical) discipline, they be answered by affirming the existence of divine causality in tandem with the natural causalities and intelligibilities known to the diverse human fields of inquiry and scholarly disciplines. Neither natural moral law nor any other intelligible order is safe for non-theists. The affirmation that God is love is not foundational, but dependent.Less
This chapter offers a reflection on the treatment in Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980) of the question how the basic human goods and requirements of practical reasonableness are related to, or in Mark Murphy's words ‘detachable from’, the rational affirmability of God's existence and nature. (About that nature, the book was too austere and agnostic.) There is ‘detachability’ just to the extent that (say) physics can be done well without raising and pressing further questions about the origins of physical realities and laws. But rationality norms applicable across the whole field of human questioning require that when those questions are raised, in the appropriate (philosophical) discipline, they be answered by affirming the existence of divine causality in tandem with the natural causalities and intelligibilities known to the diverse human fields of inquiry and scholarly disciplines. Neither natural moral law nor any other intelligible order is safe for non-theists. The affirmation that God is love is not foundational, but dependent.
W. Matthews Grant
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190611200
- eISBN:
- 9780190611224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611200.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
If God brings about all that exists distinct from himself, then any entity a creature brings about is also brought about by God. Many have objected that a single effect’s being brought about by God ...
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If God brings about all that exists distinct from himself, then any entity a creature brings about is also brought about by God. Many have objected that a single effect’s being brought about by God and by a creature is either metaphysically impossible or violates epistemic norms of parsimony. W. Mathews Grant argues in this essay that both sorts of objections fail to divine causality. He then consider arguments that an agent-causal act cannot be caused (and so cannot be caused by God), showing that these arguments also fail. It has not been shown, then, that God’s universal causality and divine conservation preclude creaturely efficacy or agent-causation.Less
If God brings about all that exists distinct from himself, then any entity a creature brings about is also brought about by God. Many have objected that a single effect’s being brought about by God and by a creature is either metaphysically impossible or violates epistemic norms of parsimony. W. Mathews Grant argues in this essay that both sorts of objections fail to divine causality. He then consider arguments that an agent-causal act cannot be caused (and so cannot be caused by God), showing that these arguments also fail. It has not been shown, then, that God’s universal causality and divine conservation preclude creaturely efficacy or agent-causation.
