Chapter XVIII (continued 1)
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Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
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241 Stück iii, Abth. ii, p. 178. ↑
242 Kant explicitly concurs in Warburton’s thesis that the Jewish lawgiver purposely omitted all mention of a future state from the Pentateuch; since such belief must be supposed to have been current in Jewry. But he goes further, and pronounces that simple Judaism contains “absolutely no religious belief.” To this complexion can philosophic compromise come. ↑
243 Stuckenberg, Life of Immanuel Kant, p. 329. ↑
244 Borowski, Darstellung des Lebens und Charakters Immanuel Kant’s, 1804, cited by Stuckenberg, p. 357. ↑
245 Stuckenberg, pp. 359–60. ↑
246 Stuckenberg, p. 361. ↑
247 Cp. F. C. Baur, Gesch. der christl. Kirche, v, 63–66. ↑
248 The first, on “Radical Evils,” appeared in a Berlin monthly in April, 1792, and was then reprinted separately. ↑
249 Stuckenberg, p. 361. ↑
250 Ueberweg, ii, 141; Stuckenberg, p. 363. ↑
251 Stuckenberg, pp. 304–309. ↑
252Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft, Stück iv, Th. 2. ↑
253 Cp. Stuckenberg, p. 332; Seth Pringle-Pattison, as cited. ↑
254 Stuckenberg, pp. 340, 346, 354, 468. ↑
255 Letter of May 22, 1799, reproduced by Heine. ↑
256Zur Gesch. der Rel. u. Philos. in Deutschland.Werke, as cited, iii, 96, 98. ↑
257 Stuckenberg, p. 311. ↑
258Id. p. 357. ↑
259 Stuckenberg, p. 351. “It is only necessary,” adds Stuckenberg (p. 468, note 142), “to develop Kant’s hints in order to get the views of Strauss in his Leben Jesu.” ↑
260Id. p. 375. Erhard stated that Pestalozzi shared his views on Christian ethics. ↑
261 Stuckenberg, p. 358. ↑
262 Cp. Weber, Gesch. der deutschen Literatur, 11te Aufl. p. 119; R. Unger, Hamann und die Aufklärung, 1911. ↑
263 Bartholmèss, Hist. crit. des doctr. relig. de la philos. moderne, 1855, i, 136–40. ↑
264 In demanding a “history of the human conscience” (Neue Anthropologie, 1790) Platner seems to have anticipated the modern scientific approach to religion. ↑
265Gespräche über den Atheismus, 1781. ↑
266Lehrbuch der Logik und Metaphysik, 1795. ↑
267 W. Smith, Memoir of Fichte, 2nd ed. p. 10. ↑
268Id. pp. 12, 13, 20, 23, 25, etc. ↑
269Id. pp. 34–35. ↑
270 Smith, p. 94. ↑
271Id. p. 34. ↑
272 Adamson, Fichte, 1881, p. 32; Smith, as cited, pp. 64–65. ↑
273 Letter to Kant, cited by Smith, p. 63. ↑
274 Asserted by Stuckenberg, Life of Kant, p. 386. ↑
275 Cp. Robins, A Defence of the Faith, 1862, pt. i, pp. 132–33; Adamson, Fichte, pp. 50–67; W. Smith, Memoir of Fichte, pp. 106–107. ↑
276 Adamson, pp. 71, 73. ↑
277Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters, 16te Vorles. ed. 1806, pp. 509–510. ↑
278 Compare the complaints of Hurst, Hist. of Rationalism, 3rd ed. pp. 136–37, and of Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Bohn ed. p. 72. Fichte’s theory, says Coleridge (after praising him as the destroyer of Spinozism), “degenerated into a crude egoismus, a boastful and hyperstoic hostility to Nature, as lifeless, godless, and altogether unholy, while his religion consisted in the assumption of a mere ordo ordinans, which we were permitted exotericé to call God.” Heine (as last cited, p. 75) insists that Fichte’s Idealism is “more Godless than the crassest Materialism.” ↑
279Grundzüge, as cited, p. 502. ↑
280 Cp. Seth Pringle-Pattison, as cited, p. 280, note. ↑