Sample Philosophy Index


 

abstraction

basic error of speculative philosophy, 48–50

existentialism and, 328

feeling and thought, 439

Jacobi enamored with, 282

Jacobi's criticism of, 157

Kant enamored with, 282

modern tendency toward, 22

personality and, 201

reason and, 40, 360

sensibility and, 40

speculation and, 48

timeless causal succession, 345

universals as products of, 43, 48

Academicians, 36

action, 22, 83, 84, 317, 440

Adorno, Theodor W., 81

Aenesidemus Review (Fichte), 389

Aesthetica in nuce (Hamann), 270, 276

aesthetics, 416–18, 419

Against Mendelssohn's Accusations Regarding the Letters Concerning the Friends (Jacobi), 69

Ages of the World (Schelling), 171

Alexis (Hemsterhuis), 237, 241

Alleinphilosophie, 72

Allwill (Jacobi), 45, 272, 435–41

animals, nonhuman, 180

Aristée (Hemsterhuis), 233, 238, 240

Aristotle, 58, 185

atheism, 151, 172, 214, 234

atheism controversy (Atheismusstreit), 22, 48, 137, 193–95, 213

Aufklärung and Aufklärer. see Enlightenment

Ayrault, Roger, 241

Baader, Franz von, 180

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 269

Being. see also existence

creation and, 428

God as absolute ground of, 407

Hamann's Original Being, 285

Heidegger's formula of existence, 326–27

Hölderlin's Absolute Being, 349, 411

intuition and, 411

Spinoza on, 74, 78, 79, 428

things as semblances of, 428–29

Beiser, Frederick C., 337

belief. see also faith

certainty and faith, 96, 119

Flatt on, 347–50, 359

general conception of, 94–96

Hamann's influence on Jacobi, 271

Hume on, 94, 100

Jacobi's avoidance of dogmatism and Pyrrhonism, 348

Jacobi's definition of, 433

sentiment and, 34

in Spinoza Letters, 95, 388

Spinoza on, 95

Berlin, Isaiah, 237

Boehme, Jacob, 181

Bonnet, Charles, 236, 250–55, 256, 258–60

Brucker, J. J., 149

Brunel, Pierre Jean, 228

Bulle, Ferdinand, 240

Camerer, Johann Caspar, 348

causality

abstraction and, 345

change implied by, 338

as concept of action, 83

critique of Jacobi's, 336–37, 340–45, 351

Flatt's deduction of, 342–44, 345, 352–54, 357

generation and, 346

God and freedom, 177–79

Jacobi's interpretation of, 82

Kant's deduction of, 346

Leibniz-Wolffian concept of, 342–43

logical deduction and, 141, 336, 341

reason and, 82, 341, 342, 345

synthetic principle, 343

temporality and, 342–45

transcendental objects and, 338, 344

change

causality implies, 338

creation and God, 53

in Flatt, 352–54

freedom to, 353

in transcendental objects, 338, 353

self's stability through, 322, 330

soul as unchanging, 338

Christ. see also Christianity, see also God

divine character hidden in humans, 158

hidden in the heart, 296

Jacobi's conception of, 221–22, 226

as moral ideal, 154, 156, 157

Christianity, 137–60, 212–28, see also belief, see also faith, see also God, see also religion, see also revelation, see also theism, see also theology

Catholic theology and Jacobi, 222–24

crypto-Catholic fideism, 65

Flatt and, 358

Hölderlin and, 358

idealism vs realism in Jacobi, 156–60

Jacobi's existential realism, 139–44

Jacobi's faith in the logos, 388

Jacobi's immediate certainty, 215–19

Jacobi's reinterpretation of, 221–22, 226

Jacobi's supersensible reality, 144–51

Jacobi's theological controversies, 137

morality in, 154

philosophy and positive religion in Jacobi, 151–56

Protestant theology and Jacobi, 212–15, 224–28

rationalism incompatibility, 165

as a tasting and a seeing, 295

theism and spiritualism of, 138

Clarke, Samuel, 116

Claudius, Matthias, 138, 272, 290

community, 359, 437, 444

The Concept of Anxiety (Kierkegaard), 315

Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn (Spinoza Letters) (Jacobi)

about, 64–65

Aristée in, 238

Bonnetian themes in, 260

consciousness and existence, 331

debate with Mendelssohn, 67

on faith and belief, 95, 96, 238, 378–80, 385, 387

feeling of being, 104

Forster's impact on, 31

Hemsterhuis's role in, 232–35, 238, 260

historicity in, 248–52, 255

intellect and individuation, 87

Kierkegaard's familiarity with, 301

Lessing and divinity, 212

pietism in, 433

reason and rationality, 51, 55

reception of, 64, 289, 341–42

revealing existence through philosophy, 47

Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Kierkegaard), 301, 304, 323

consciousness. see also self

arises from the infinite, 418–20

feeling of being vs, 104

of freedom, 84, 147

of God, 165, 421

Jacobi's definition of, 119, 320

life and existence, 142, 320, 331, 332

personality and personhood, 102, 320

religious consciousness, 222–27

self-consciousness, 144, 317

in transcendental philosophy, 320

correspondence of Jacobi

Diderot, Denis, 237

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 30, 38, 47, 49

Forster, Georg, 31, 35

Princess Gallitzin, 45, 52, 235

Hamann, Johann Georg, 54, 268, 272, 282, 290–94

Hemsterhuis, François, 104, 235, 246

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 41, 53

Kant, Immanuel, 111

Kleuker, Johann Friedrich, 32, 33, 53

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 69, 75, 250, 428

Mendelssohn, Moses, 41, 55, 67, 250, 257, 289, 432

Paul, Jean, 266

Reimarus, Johann Albert Heinrich, 45

Reinhold, Karl Leonhard, 38, 50

creation, 53, 182, 278, 286, 344, 428

creativity, 117

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 193, 400

Crystal-Clear Report (Fichte), 367

Daedalus, 39

Dasein, 326, 351

David Hume on Faith (Jacobi)

on consciousness and personhood, 320

consultation of Sextus Empiricus, 32

critique of pure reason, 56–60

on faith and belief, 34, 114, 378, 386

Flatt's critique of, 341

God in, 157

Hamann and, 290

indirect realism, 97

intellect and individuation, 88

Jacobi-Schelling debate, 165, 174

nature as God's ground rejected, 181

preoccupation with Spinoza, 73

skepticism in, 34

Denkmal der Schrift von den göttlichen Dingen (Schelling), 167, 174, 182

Descartes, René, 52, 142, 247

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Adorno), 81

Diderot, Denis, 237

Diez, Immanuel, 355

disjunctivism, 98

docta ignorantia, 31

Doctrine of Faith (Schleiermacher), 225

dogma and dogmatism, 32, 37, 51, 164, 312, 350

double/dual philosophy, 72, 83, 308–12, 312–16, 319, 325

dualism, 57, 182, 198, 402, 403

Duns Scotus, 122

Either/Or (Kierkegaard), 330

empiricism, 93–102

belief and, 94–96

Hume vs Jacobi, 100–102

impressions over ideas, 93–94

of Jacobi, 359

mind and, 93–102

perception in Jacobi, 96–101

Encyclopaedia (Hegel), 361

Enlightenment

Aufklärung and Aufklärer, 22, 38, 42, 274

critique of, 21, 42, 274

crypto-Catholic fideism and Jacobi, 65

dark core of, 269, 272

nihilism of, 269, 272

pantheism controversy and, 21

reason and rationalism, 22, 59, 274

theological Enlightenment, 156

enthusiasm

annihilation of objective reality, 198

correcting image of Jacobi and, 74

enthusiasm controversy, 257

in Hemsterhuis, 237–43, 253

intuition and, 239, 242

Jacobi's definition, 196–98

in Kant, 401

logical enthusiasm, 201, 196–203

nihilism and, 198, 196–203

reason and genius, 126

religious enthusiasm, 431

salto mortale and, 127

understanding's propensity for, 196–98

Epicureanism, 37

Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts (Lessing), 258

Ethics (Spinoza), 64, 68–70, 75, 95, 293

eudemonism, 355

evil, 179–82, 183

existence. see also life, see also Being

consciousness and, 142, 331

effect of essence, 287

existential realism in Jacobi, 139–44

freedom and, 142, 332

German Idealism and Jacobi, 304

ground vs, 180

in Hegel, 443

in Heidegger, 326–27

immediate certainty of, 228

individuality and personality, 319

Jacobi's unveiling of, 331, 351

in Kierkegaard, 323–24, 328–31

Kierkegaard vs Jacobi's life, 303, 304–7

life and, 303, 324

meaning of time, 141

nihilistic view in existentialism, 327–29

philosophy's purpose and, 304

reason and, 152

revealed through philosophy, 47

self and, 102–7, 326–27

existentialism, 299–332, see also Kierkegaard, Søren

abstraction and, 328

double philosophy, 308–16

freedom and, 331–32

German Idealism and Jacobi, 299–303

Hamann's critique of Jacobi, 291

inwardness, 316–19

Jacobi as first existentialist, 274

Kierkegaard's influence on, 326, 327

negativism, 325–27

nihilism, 326–29

personhood, 319–23

rational thought vs existential thought, 305–8

striving, 323–25

unveiling existence, 303–8, 331–32

vocation of man, 329–31

faith. see also belief

abstraction's subversion of, 22

in Allwill, 436

in Aristée, 238

certainty and belief, 96, 119

in David Hume, 114, 378, 386

in the external world, 385–87

fatalism and mechanism vs, 111–14

Fichte on, 378

first principles based on, 381, 385

freedom and, 110, 112–14

Hamann and, 269, 271, 276–79, 296

Hemsterhuis on, 238–39

Jacobi vs Schlegel, 420

Jacobi-Fichte relationship and, 365–70, 378, 382–84, 386–87, 389

Jacobi's definition of, 212, 215, 378–80, 383, 433

Jacobi's not-unphilosophical faith in God, 191, 203–10

Kant on, 128–32

Kierkegaard on, 329

knowledge and, 380, 420

moral faith, 131

reason and, 120–23, 137, 217, 223, 277

salto mortale, 112

sense experience and, 113

in Spinoza Letters, 96, 238, 378–80, 385, 387

tastes and sees, 296

Faith and Knowledge (Hegel), 302

fatalism, 165, 177–82, 430

Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard), 329

feeling

as abstractive, 439

of being, 104

continuity with reason, 120

in Hamann, 269, 270

moral law and, 129

perception and, 91, 140

self-feeling of our own existence, 102–7

Fichte Studien (Novalis), 408

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. see also Jacobi-Fichte relationship

on action and certainty, 319

atheism controversy, 194

correspondence with Jacobi, 30, 38, 47, 49

critique of rational theology, 194

Doctrine of Science, 140, 151

end of reason is an eternal progress, 358

faith and scientific knowledge, 380

German Romanticism, 397, 408–13

Hegel's critique of, 358

holistic thinking, 78

I/Not-I relationship, 372–77

idealism of, 143, 299, 398

Kierkegaard on, 313–15, 316–19

nihilism, 49, 79, 151, 198, 314

on philosophy's essence, 48, 314, 368, 388–90

practical reason privileged, 307

on religion, 47, 367–68

Spinoza and, 76–77, 312, 382

spirit and, 311

subjectivity and philosophy of "I", 317–19, 321, 372–77, 397

synthetic method, 371–77, 381, 382

systematic Spinozism, 382

the transcendental, 162, 398

Wissenschaftslehre, 30, 47, 72, 79, 368, 381

Aenesidemus Review, 389

Crystal-Clear Report, 367

Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre, 369–70, 372, 380, 386

"From a Private Letter (January 1800)", 371

Grundriss, 372

On the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre, 383

Second Introduction to the Wissenschaftslehre, 384

The System of Ethics in accordance with the Wissenschaftslehre, 321

Über den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre, 383

The Vocation of Man, 307, 311, 321, 366, 368

The Way to the Blessed Life, 366

fideism, 65, 212

final causes/ends, 115–17

Flatt, Johann Friedrich

on belief, 346–50, 358

on causality, 342–44, 345, 352–54, 357

on change and variation, 354, 352–54

Christianity and, 358

critique of Kant, 338, 353, 358

critique of Spinoza Letters, 341–42

engagement with Jacobi, 336–37, 340, 341, 340–45, 351

on generation and philosophy, 346, 352

Hegel influenced by, 340, 359–61

Hölderlin influenced by, 337, 349

human nature, 352–54

physico-theological proof of God, 357

principle of grounding, 352–54

stirring interest in Spinoza, 340

temporality, 352

third way in philosophy, 337, 339–44

Fragmentarische Beyträge zur Bestimmung und Deduktion…, 339

Forberg, Friedrich Karl, 193

Forster, Georg, 30–31, 35

Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre (Fichte), 369–70, 372, 380, 386

Fragmentarische Beyträge zur Bestimmung und Deduktion… (Flatt), 339

freedom

absolute vs conditioned, 147, 332

causality and, 177–79

change in transcendental objects, 338, 353

consciousness of, 84, 147

existence and consciousness of, 142, 332

faith and, 110, 112–14

genius and creative freedom, 270

God and, 112–14, 120, 147–48, 177–79

in Hegel, 315, 357

intrinsic to reality, 117

Kant's doctrine of, 338

love and, 219–20

miracle and, 114

reason and, 112, 118, 180

subverted by abstraction, 22

supernatural and, 120

system and, 83, 170, 300, 309, 311

to think, 125

Freedom Essay (Schelling), 170, 174, 177–82

Fries, Jacob Friedrich, 226

"From a Private Letter (January 1800)" (Fichte), 371

Princess Gallitzin, 45, 52, 235

genius, 125, 270

German Idealism, 336–61, see also idealism, see also Flatt, Johann Friedrich

belief and, 347–50

causality, 344–47

contextualizing Jacobi in Flatt, 336–39

Flatt's critique of Jacobi, 359–61

Flatt's third way in philosophy, 339–44

grounding principle, 352–54

Jacobi on philosophy and existence, 304

Jacobi's influence on Kant, 299

physico-theological proof of God, 357–59

Rapp, 354–57

skepticism and Jacobi, 350–51

Gespräch über die Poesie (Schlegel), 412

"Glauben und Wissen" (Hegel), 340, 355, 359

God. see also belief, see also Christ, see also Christianity, see also faith, see also religion, see also theism

absolute ground of divine Being, 407

causality and, 177–79

in Clarke, 116

consciousness of, 165, 420

contains nature and the self, 409

in David Hume, 157

Fichte's doctrine of, 388–90

final causes and, 115

freedom and, 112–14, 120, 147–48, 177–79

good and goodness, 146, 152

Hamann's Original Being, 285

in human acts and works, 147–48

image of, 221–22, 281

as intelligent volitional creator, 113

intuition and, 166

Jacobi's immediate certainty of, 215–19

Jacobi's relationship with, 47, 148, 156, 431

Johannine tradition of, 390

Kant and proof of, 74

in Locke, 116

logical deduction and, 137

logical enthusiasm and, 201

moral experience, 219

nature and, 164, 174, 182–87, 227, 409

Naturphilosophie and, 165–66

not-unphilosophical faith in, 191, 203–10

Novalis on, 409

perception of, 144

as person, 139

personality and intellect of, 89, 102, 117, 146, 181, 187, 202

physico-theological proof of, 357

pure reason, 59, 117, 278, 284, 390

rational theology and, 194–95, 199, 201–3

reason and, 59, 165, 207, 277

in Schelling, 152, 173, 184

source of higher faculties, 115–17

in Spinoza, 152, 410

subjectivity and Not-I, 391

the understanding and, 206

theistic attributes and atheism, 151

as transcendental object, 353

truth and, 146

unchangeable nature, 53

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 65, 73, 264–65, 425, 430, 442

Gravesande, Willem, 254

Grundriss (Fichte), 372