Author: Gottlieb Florschutz
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780877851813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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This short monograph focuses on Immanuel Kant's view of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Author: Stephen R. Palmquist
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793604657
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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What is happening when someone has a mystical experience, such as “feeling at one with the universe” or “hearing God’s voice?” Does philosophy provide tools for assessing such claims? Which claims can be dismissed as delusions and which ones convey genuine truths that might be universally meaningful? Valuable insights into such pressing questions can be found in the writings of Immanuel Kant, though few philosophical commentators have appreciated the implications beyond his famous “Copernican hypothesis.” In Kant and Mysticism, Stephen R. Palmquist corrects this skewed view of Kant once and for all. Beginning with a detailed analysis of Kant’s 1766 work Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Palmquist demonstrates that in Dreams Kant first discovers and explains his plan to write a new, “critical” philosophy that will revolutionize metaphysics by laying bare the limits of human reason. Palmquist shows how the same metaphorical relationship—between reason’s dreams (metaphysics) and sensibility’s dreams (mysticism)—permeates Kant’s mature writings. Clarifying how Kant’s final (unfinished) book, Opus Postumum, completes this dual project, Palmquist explains how the “critical mysticism” entailed by Kant’s position has profound implications for contemporary understandings of religious and mystical experience, both by religious individuals and by philosophers seeking to understand such experiences.

Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Fite Press
ISBN: 144377488X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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TRANSLATORS NOTE, The difficulties which Kants style presents to the translator into English need not be dwelt upon wjth tkosc who are familiar with his works. My main endeavour has been to produce a readable translation. I have, therefore, laid stress on the faithful and lucid representation of the authors thought, while the preservation of the periodic constructions of the original was of secondary interest, I am, however, conscious that it have not in dl places succeeded in sailing with even keel between the extremes of strictly literal translation and paraphrase.

Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Chrysalis Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This volume is a new translation of one of Immanuel Kant's most puzzling works, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, a scathing satire of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. An introduction by translator Gregory R. Johnson puts the essay in the context of Kant's life and thought, shedding new light on this pivotal work.

Author: Friedemann Horn
Publisher: Chrysalis Books
ISBN: 9780877851875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Scholar Friedemann Horn documents Friedrich Schelling's intense personal engagement with the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, an engagement fueled by the deaths of two women whom Schelling loved.

Author: Erland J. Brock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Albrecht Gralle
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780877853442
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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In this fanciful tour of the afterlife, Albrecht Gralle poses some hard-hitting questions: What if anyone could get into heaven? Would you want to go? Is it really possible for a rational person to believe in a God who can't been seen or touched, who would permit so much suffering in the world? Grounded in descriptions of heaven and hell from Swedish scientist-turned-theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, this exploration of the worlds of spirit speaks to anyone with doubts about spiritual belief.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780854481552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Five Ages: Swedenborg's View of Spiritual History presents a compelling spiritual and psychological history of human evolution through extracts from the works of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, neatly linking them with an engaging and informative commentary that places the ideas within the context of modern historical and archaeological knowledge.

Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300029826
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen’s and Cassirer’s only full-scale study of Kant’s philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer’s philosophy was based on Kant’s, and accordingly this book is Cassirer’s explicit coming to terms with his own historical origins. It sensitively integrates interesting facts about Kant’s life with an appreciation and critique of his works. Its value is enhanced by Stephen K�rner’s Introduction, which places Cassirer’s Kant-interpretation in its historical and contemporary context.”--Lewis White Beck "The first English translation (well done by James Haden) of a 60-year-old classic intellectual biography. Those readers who know Kant only through the first Critique will find their understanding of that work deepened and illuminated by a long explication of the pre-critical writings, but perhaps the most distinctive contribution is Cassirer’s argument that the later Critiques, and especially the Critique of Judgment, must be understood not as merely applying the principles of the first to other areas but as subsuming the latter into a larger and more comprehensive framework.”--Frederick J. Crown, The Key Reporter "Kant’s Life and Thought is that rare achievement: a lucid and highly readable account of the life and work of one of the world’s profoundest thinkers. Now for the first time available in an admirable English translation, the book introduces the reader to two of the finest minds in the history of philosophy.”--Ashley Montagu

Author: Ernst Benz
Publisher: Swedenborg Studies
ISBN: 9780877851967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Available for the first time in paperback, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's eminently readable translation of Ernst Benz' classic work of scholarship stands as one of the most comprehensive biographies of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).