I wanted to say, I recently found your videos and am extremely thankful for what you do. I was curious, have you released anything regarding Søren Kierkegaard? I know he's a particularly interesting Lutheran philosopher and what I've read of his works seem to point existentialism as a sort of theosis.
@@SparkyLuther The collection "Spiritual Writings" translated by George Pattinson. I'd also recommend "Works of Love." If you're more interested in his philosophical works, rather than his directly Christian works, "Fear and Trembling" and "The Concept of Anxiety" are good reads. They are written under pseudonyms, which he often used to take on a point of view that was not his own to help make a philosophical point.
Am curious, as a inquirer into philosophy, on the relation between the Kantian model of understanding reality, with transcendental idealism and whatnot, and kierkegaardian afirmations. What are concepts for kierkegaard, what is reality, so on.
Dr. Cooper - If you haven't read it already, you absolutely must read "After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J.G. Hamann" by John Betz. Johann Hamann was a friend and neighbor of Kant's in Konigsberg. He was also a devout Lutheran who 'meta-critiqued' Kant and the whole Enlightenment project by showing how the Rationalism of the Enlightenment inevitably led to nihilism and despair. He anticipated Post-Modernism by 200 years, and out of it, established the way for a profound Christian apologetic centered on Christ as Logos. Why doesn't anyone know about this guy? Well, beside the fact that academia had a vested interest in keeping the Enlightment project going, Hamann's writing style was unfortunately rather cryptic, and so it takes a skillful interpreter to pull out Hamann's meaning. But John Betz does the job! It is one of the most profound books I've ever read (beside the Bible, of course ;-). It should be required reading for every Christian philosopher.
Fichte once visited Kant because he wanted his absolution only to find the old man wanting. He would then go on to become a ferocious professor at Jena University at the request of Schiller to Goethe, who was then responsible for the state universities in Weimar-Saxony as privy councilor of Duke Karl August. Schiller, Schelling, Schlegel etc lived in Jena at the same time. Goethe served as godfather of the so-called Jena Set (Andrea Wulff, Magnificent Rebels). Together, they all would experience the thrill of the French Revolution from a distance. Schelling attended a lecture of Fichte, after which he told Hegel "the age of philosophical darkness is now over". They all knew each other, it was a small intellectual bubble back then, an echo chamber. Necessarily, Hegel was influenced by Fichte and Schelling and vice versa.
