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Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739193181
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
186
Autor:
Brayton Polka
Serie:
Graven Images
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book analyzes the ideas central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the fundamental ideas of the Bible and of Christianity, which leaves his philosophy irredeemably contradictory.
Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard in order to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Brayton Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the fundamental ideas of the Bible—creation, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and covenantal love—and of Christianity, which leaves his philosophy irredeemably contradictory, as he himself acknowledges. The aim, then, is to show that our modern values, the values that constitute modernity, are biblical in origin. It is only when we come to understand that modernity is biblical from the beginning and that the Bible is modern unto the end that we are able to overcome the opposition, so evident today, between philosophy and theology, between reason and faith, and between the secular and the religious. Polka makes central the distinction that Kierkegaard draws between Christianity and Christendom: Christianity represents the coming into historical existence of the single individual; Christendom represents Christian values that are rationalized in pagan terms. As Kierkegaard shows us, if God has always existed eternally, then he has never existed eternally, then he has never come into historical existence for the single individual. The distinction between Christianity and Christendom is the distinction not between faith and reason, but between truth and idolatry. While theology and philosophy each represent the truth of Christianity, Schopenhauer’s idolatrous concepts of faith, no less than of reason, represent Christendom.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Kantian Revolution in Metaphysics
Chapter 2: Hegel and the Myth of the Fall
Chapter 3: Kierkegaard on Coming into Historical Existence as the Critique of Christendom
Chapter 4: What is Philosophy? Feuerbach and Schopenhauer on the Essence of Christianity
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Hegel and the Myth of the Fall
Chapter 3: Kierkegaard on Coming into Historical Existence as the Critique of Christendom
Chapter 4: What is Philosophy? Feuerbach and Schopenhauer on the Essence of Christianity
Chapter 5: Conclusion