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Philosophy of Revelation: Remarks on Schelling, Jaspers, and Rosenzweig

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Franz Rosenzweig and Karl Jaspers both made references to Schelling’s Philosophie der Offenbarung. Despite his overall favorable reception, Jaspers disagreed with Schelling’s ontological certainty of faith; in contrast, Rosenzweig develops in his Stern der Erlösung how Schelling succeeded with overcoming idealism in favor of a “new thinking.” From these two contrasting interpretations it becomes clear that careful study of Schelling’s philosophy allows for a contemporary perspective to the problem of philosophical faith—a position that was demonstrated by Leonard H. Ehrlich.

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  1. 1.

    Leonard H. Ehrlich, “Neues Denken und Erneuerung der Fundamentalphilosophie,” in Franz Rosenzweigsneues Denken,” ed. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, 2 Vol. (Freiburg/München: K. Alber, 2006), pp. 76 f. Translation of this essay and all quotations from German to English by Josiah Simon.

  2. 2.

    Plato, Sophistes 246 a ff.

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    Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik II, Werke 6 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1969), pp. 548 ff. [Henceforth cited as WL with volume number]

  4. 4.

    Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Zur Geschichte der neueren Philosophie, in Sämtliche Werke X (Stuttgart/Augsburg: Cotta, 1856), pp. 126 ff. [Henceforth cited as SW with volume number]

  5. 5.

    See Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, „Sinn und Existenz in der Spätphilosophie Schellings“ (Wiener diss., 1963).

  6. 6.

    Hans Ehrenberg, Die Parteiung der Philosophie. Studien wider Hegel und den Kantianismus (1911) (Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 1998).

  7. 7.

    Franz Rosenzweig, Der Stern der Erlösung (1921) (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988), in Der Mensch und sein Werk. Gesammelte Schriften II, The Hague 1976. See also Franz Rosenzweig, “Das neue Denken,” in Zweistromland. Kleinere Schriften in Der Mensch und sein Werk. Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. III (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1979).

  8. 8.

    Karl Jaspers, Der philosophische Glaube (München: R. Piper, 1948).

  9. 9.

    F.W.J. Schelling, Urfassung der Philosophie der Offenbarung, 2 vols., ed. Walter E. Ehrhardt (Hamburg: F. Meiner, 1992). [Henceforth cited as UPO with volume number]

  10. 10.

    See Paul Tillich, Die religionsgeschichtliche Konstruktion in Schellings positiver Philosophie (Breslau: H. Fleischmann, 1910).

  11. 11.

    Cf. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, „Vom Totalexperiment des Glaubens. Kritisches zur positiven Philosophie Schellings und Rosenzweigs“, in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, ed., Franz Rosenzweig. Existentielles Denken und gelebte Bewährung (Freiburg/München: K. Alber, 1991).

  12. 12.

    F.W.J. Schelling, Urfassung der Philosophie der Offenbarung, 1992, Vol. II, pp. 700 ff.

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    Karl Jaspers, Schelling. Größe und Verhängnis (1955) (München: R. Piper, 1986), pp. 59, 103. [Henceforth cited as SGV]

  14. 14.

    Karl Jaspers, Der philosophische Glaube angesichts der Offenbarung (München: R. Piper, 1962), p. 49. [Henceforth cited as PGO]

  15. 15.

    Karl Rosenkranz, Hegels Leben (1844) cited from SGV 98.

  16. 16.

    F.W.J. Schelling, “Das ‚ältestes Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus,” in Mythologie der Vernunft, eds. Christoph Jamme und Helmut Schneider (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1984); see also SGV 56.

  17. 17.

    Franz Rosenzweig, Briefe und Tagebücher, I, in Der Mensch und sein Werk. Gesammelte Schriften (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979), p. 701. See also Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption, trans. William W. Hallo (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985), pp. 19 f. [Henceforth cited as SR]

  18. 18.

    See Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Rosenzweig im Gespräch mit Ehrenberg, Cohen und Buber (Freiburg/München: Alber, 2006).

  19. 19.

    Hermann Cohen, Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums (1919) (Darmstadt: J. Melzer, 1966), p. 39. See also Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Rosenzweig im Gespräch mit Ehrenberg, Cohen und Buber (Freiburg/München: Alber, 2006), p. 127.

  20. 20.

    See Leonard H. Ehrlich, Karl Jaspers: Philosophy as Faith (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1975), pp. 222 ff.

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Schmied-Kowarzik, W. (2012). Philosophy of Revelation: Remarks on Schelling, Jaspers, and Rosenzweig. In: Wautischer, H., Olson, A., Walters, G. (eds) Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2223-1_13

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