Evaluating western religion via Rosenzweig’s Template

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Term papers

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4 pages

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Published date :

04/19/2009

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Political science

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Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction
Rosenzweig's divison of the second section of his book into creation, revelation, and redemption
The God of Islam
Satisfying the requirements of symbolic deed
The virtue of inwardness
Conclusion
Works cited

Abstract

Franz rosenzweig began his career in philosophy by discussing the origins of German Idealism and the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel, who is "generally regarded as the culminating point in the development of post-Kantian idealism in Germany" and "unquestionably one of the most influential systems of though n the nineteenth century" (Aiken 71). Although rosenzweig would later go on in The Star of Redemption to write polemically against the philosopher and his philosophic idealism of geist (Spirit) systematically realizing itself through time, rosenzweig was nonetheless unable to also jettison Hegel's style of prose when he distanced himself from Hegel's philosophy (Glatzer writes in the foreword that "despite his harsh criticism of the German idealistic tradition, its influence on rosenzweig persisted both in the realm of philosophical issues and in writing style" (xvi)). Henry Aiken writes that "Hegel's prose is dense, elaborate, and laborious [and] he rarely says what he means, or means what he seems to be saying" (72), while Patrick Gardiner writes that "the range and sweep of Hegel's thinking, and the cumbrous and often repellent manner in which he chose to express it, combine to make him a philosopher of exceptional difficulty" (41). The same could be said for rosenzweig in the way that he expresses himself in both The Star of Redemption and its subsequent additional essay "The New Thinking". However, this is not to say that rosenzweig's ideas are undecipherable or without merit: once one familiarizes oneself with the difficult and sometimes flat-out mysterious instances of phrasing (specifically his algebraic criticism of idealistic metaphysics, pp. 134 - 145), a picture emerges of an overarching method for philosophical insight into the subjects of knowledge. Divided into three words these methods are creation, revelation, and redemption