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Kant and Mysticism
Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason's Light
Taschenbuch von Stephen R. Palmquist
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Stephen R. Palmquist is professor of religion and philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

Introduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in Kant

Part I

Swedenborg's Influence on Kant's Critical Awakening

Chapter 1 - The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant's Awakening from Dogmatic Slumber

Chapter 2 - The Impact of Swedenborg's Mysticism on Kant's Metaphysical Dreams

Chapter 3 - Kant's Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical Mysticism

Chapter 4 - Kant's Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical Philosophy

Part II

Kant's Critical Philosophy as a Critique of Mysticism

Chapter 5 - Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?

Chapter 6 - Kant's Critique of Delirious Mysticism

Chapter 7 - Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the Moral

Chapter 8 - Key Metaphors Guiding Kant's Critical Mysticism

Part III

The Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical Mysticism

Chapter 9 - Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?

Chapter 10 - The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of God

Chapter 11 - Matter's Living Force as Immediate Experience of the World

Chapter 12 - The Highest Purpose of Philosophy as Exhibiting the God-Man

Conclusion - Kantian Mysticism for the Twenty-First Century
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 19. Jh.
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781793604668
ISBN-10: 1793604665
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Palmquist, Stephen R.
Hersteller: Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen R. Palmquist
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,273 kg
Artikel-ID: 121085110
Über den Autor
Stephen R. Palmquist is professor of religion and philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface

Introduction: The Problem of Mystical Experience in Kant

Part I

Swedenborg's Influence on Kant's Critical Awakening

Chapter 1 - The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Kant's Awakening from Dogmatic Slumber

Chapter 2 - The Impact of Swedenborg's Mysticism on Kant's Metaphysical Dreams

Chapter 3 - Kant's Awakening: The Copernican Hypothesis as the Key to Critical Mysticism

Chapter 4 - Kant's Metaphysical Dream: A System of Critical Philosophy

Part II

Kant's Critical Philosophy as a Critique of Mysticism

Chapter 5 - Does Mystical Experience Always Prompt Delirium?

Chapter 6 - Kant's Critique of Delirious Mysticism

Chapter 7 - Critical Mysticism as Immediate Experience of the Moral

Chapter 8 - Key Metaphors Guiding Kant's Critical Mysticism

Part III

The Opus Postumum as an Experiment in Critical Mysticism

Chapter 9 - Can the Original (Threefold) Synthesis Be Consciously Experienced?

Chapter 10 - The Categorical Imperative as the Voice of God

Chapter 11 - Matter's Living Force as Immediate Experience of the World

Chapter 12 - The Highest Purpose of Philosophy as Exhibiting the God-Man

Conclusion - Kantian Mysticism for the Twenty-First Century
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 19. Jh.
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781793604668
ISBN-10: 1793604665
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Palmquist, Stephen R.
Hersteller: Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen R. Palmquist
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,273 kg
Artikel-ID: 121085110
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