After the 'Death of God': Friedrich Nietzsche and Paul Tillich
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2014
- Delivered by Richard Schacht, Professor of Philosophy, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Tillich Lecture took place on May 9, 2005, in Emerson Hall, and was co-sponsored by Harvard Divinity School and the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Clear, informative presentation until the last minute! Answering the third and final question, he says he would rather place Nietzsche in the analytic tradition than the continental one, because Nietzsche prizes painstaking rationality in reasoning. I find it staggering that such a respected commentator on Nietzsche can so lackadaisically join others in the absurd misrepresentation of the programme of deconstruction as compromising on philosophical rigour.
WTF?! Did everyone in the room want to do an introduction? How about “ladies and gentlemen, I give you yada yada”?
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Interesting!
Richard Schacht wrote an excellent book on Nietzsche's philosophy. I only wish more authors of Schacht's caliber would publish critical books on individual books by Nietzsche. I would love to read a book on Nietzsche's Antichrist(s). I would like to read everything that's
Bertrand Russell in his History of Western Philosophy was scathing in his chapter on Nietzsche, calling his work the "mere power-phantasies of an invalid" and referring to Nietzsche as a "megalomaniac". Russell is here depicting the "hard Nietzsche" very few today would recognize. Russell's psychological daggers against Nietzsche are unbalanced, but worth considering. In one particularly harsh section, he says:
One can't complain because Q&A was available at the end but still has to wonder how the most influential forces the concept and relevance of Being were not mentioned. Nietzsche said one had to have long legs to climb tall mountains but not that long where it could be interpolated that his Death of God had to do with the End of God as a Being.
Brilliant! Various concepts of God; I think Tillich, Spinoza may have been on to the truth as God being a being, ' God as Spirit' and The Courage to be. Thank you very much.
Conception and perception will create things.
I'm not sure you should thank someone that encourages you to be a professional philosopher.
Very helpful. But why didn’t Tillich take the obvious next step, and accept the hint from Ockham?
the volume of introductions and preambles in this video is preposterous and laughed at.
Did anyone understand any of this?
Wonderful. Thank you
What Matters Most.
When you have come to certain dead end that is left-brained, visually-based, language-based logic and rational existentialism, you confront the great chasm, the great Nothingness, the total meaninglessness, a void of hope and purpose, the belly of the whale, the emptiness of all meaning and purpose and the edge of sanity. At that point of existentialist despair, I step off the cliff, a bold and pure step of faith, in spite of all my left brain linguistic logic saying the is no God, there is no purpose for life or living - in that moment of pure psychic nothingness, I step into pure being, and a God of mystical meaning and compassion materializes before me and builds a bridge beneath my feet, with each step as I blindly am led forward by heart (cor Latin) courage. Not logic but pure courage to lean into despair and emptiness and all the logic against existence of either myself or God. But I will believe in spite of all the logic against it, through an act of pure faith alone, and The experience of God and pure being materializes within me. God is not a thing or a noun, but an intimate encounter with pure being, life and love simultaneously. Heaven is in the present moment. The present moment is eternal and miraculous Presence...the encounter IS God, born from faith alone, in the face of a all the logic that says it is not, I believe in it anyway, and my pure irrational faith opens the doorway to pure connection with mystical reality, mystical God, mystical experience of God-Being. That is my proof. I lived it and God built a bridge beneath my feet as I stepped into the insanity of Nothingness and meaninglessness with only Pure Faith and I will never be the same. I stepped into nothingness in pure faith and was filled with Sacred Presence...that is God beyond God...an experience - a profound, life-giving moment of eternity and pure being. Behold and be held in the rapture of God beyond God.
We are a phenomenon; transitory, illusionary and beyond our own control
Paul Tillich: “God cannot be an object of faith without also being the subject of man's faith.” Am I misunderstanding the speaker’s representation of Tillich’s thought on the person of God, the divine being? The quotes by other responders makes this clear.
This is how church sermons ought to be in the modern, civilized world.