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Chapter 10 - Church and state: Schelling’s political philosophy of religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

Lara Ostaric
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Temple University, Philadelphia
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This chapter relates the traditional concern of philosophy, since Aristotle, with the political nature of the human being to the focus on religion that is to be found in German idealism in general, and in the middle Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling in particular. It is divided into four sections that address: the modern rationalization of state and religion; the opposition between mechanics and organics in thinking about the state before Kant, in Kant, and in the early Schelling; the middle Schelling's redefinition of the relation between church and state in the context of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom; and the grounds and consequences of the middle Schelling's religious trumping of political law. On Schelling's Stuttgart analysis, the basic defect of the state lies in the contradictory connection between physically effected and effective unity (natural unity) as a means and an extra- and supernatural end.
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Interpreting Schelling
Critical Essays
, pp. 200 - 215
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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