Contents

Translators' Foreword

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION
Winter Semester 1920–21

PART ONE
Methodological Introduction
Philosophy, Factical Life Experience,
and the Phenomenology of Religion

Chapter One
The Formation of Philosophical Concepts and Factical Life Experience

§ 1. The Peculiarity of Philosophical Concepts

§ 2. On the Title of the Lecture Course

§ 3. Factical Life Experience as the Point of Departure

§ 4. Taking-Cognizance-of

Chapter Two
Current Tendencies of the Philosophy of Religion

§ 5. Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religion

a) Psychology

b) Epistemology

c) Philosophy of History

d) Metaphysics

§ 6. Critical Observations

Chapter Three
The Phenomenon of the Historical

§ 7. The Historical as Core Phenomenon

a) “Historical Thinking”

b) The Concept of the Historical

c) The Historical in Factical Life Experience

§ 8. The Struggle of Life against the Historical

a) The Platonic Way

b) Radical Self-Extradition

c) Compromise between the Two Positions

§ 9. Tendencies-to-Secure

a) The Relation of the Tendency-to-Secure

b) The Sense of the Historical Itself

c) Does the Securing Suffice?

§ 10. The Concern of Factical Dasein

Chapter Four
Formalization and Formal Indication

§ 11. The General Sense of “Historical”

§ 12. Generalization and Formalization

§ 13. The “Formal Indication”

PART TWO
Phenomenological Explication of
Concrete Religious Phenomena in
Connection with the Letters of Paul

Chapter One
Phenomenological Interpretation of the Letters to the Galatians

§ 14. Introduction

§ 15. Some Remarks on the Text

§ 16. The Fundamental Posture of Paul

Chapter Two
Task and Object of the Philosophy of Religion

§ 17. Phenomenological Understanding

§ 18. Phenomenology of Religion and the History of Religion

§ 19. Basic Determinations of Primordial Christian Religiosity

§ 20. The Phenomenon of Proclamation

§ 21. Foreconceptions of the Study

§ 22. The Schema of Phenomenological Explication

Chapter Three
Phenomenological Explication of the First Letter to the Thessalonians

§ 23. Methodological Difficulties

§ 24. The “Situation”

§ 25. The “Having-Become” of the Thessalonians

§ 26. The Expectation of the Parousia

Chapter Four
The Second Letter to the Thessalonians

§ 27. Anticipation of the Parousia in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians

§ 28. The Proclamation of the Antichrist

§ 29. Dogma and the Complex of Enactment

Chapter Five
Characteristics of Early Christian Life Experience

§ 30. Factical Life Experience and Proclamation

§ 31. The Relational Sense of Primordial Christian Religiosity

§ 32. Christian Facticity as Enactment

§ 33. The Complex of Enactment as “Knowledge”

APPENDIX

Notes and Sketches on the Lecture

Letter to the Galatians [on § 16]

Religious Experience and Explication [on § 17]

Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (I) [on §§ 18 and 19]

Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (II) [on §§ 20 and 21]

Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (III) [on § 22]

The Hermeneutical Foreconceptions [on § 22]

Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (I) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]

Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (II) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]

Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (III) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]

Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (IV) [on §§ 23–26]

Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (V) [on §§ 23–26]

Enactmental-Historical Understanding [on § 24]

Eschatology I (I Thess.) [on § 26]

Eschatology II (I Thess.) [on § 26]

Eschatology III (II Thess.) [on §§ 27 and 28]

Eschatology IV (II Thess.) [on §§ 28 and 29]

 

AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM
Summer Semester 1921

INTRODUCTORY PART
Interpretations of Augustine

§ 1. Ernst Troeltsch's Interpretation of Augustine

§ 2. Adolf von Harnack's Interpretation of Augustine

§ 3. Wilhelm Dilthey's Interpretation of Augustine

§ 4. The Problem of Historical Objectivity

§ 5. A Discussion of the Three Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Sense of Access

§ 6. A Discussion of the Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Motivational Basis for the Starting Point and the Enactment of Access

a) The Motivational Centers of the Three Interpretations

b) Demarcation from Object-Historical Studies

c) Demarcation from Historical-Typological Studies

MAIN PART
Phenomenological Interpretation of Confessions; Book X

§ 7. Preparations for the Interpretation

a) Augustine's Retractions of the Confessions

b) The Grouping of the Chapters

§ 8. The Introduction to Book X. Chapters 1–7

a) The Motif of confiteri before God and the People

b) Knowledge of Oneself

c) The Objecthood of God

d) The Essence of the Soul

§ 9. The memoria. Chapters 8–19

a) Astonishment at memoria

b) Sensuous Objects

c) Nonsensuous Objects

d) The discere and Theoretical Acts

e) The Affects and Their Manner of Givenness

f) Ipse mihi occurro

g) The Aporia regarding oblivio

h) What Does It Mean to Search?

§ 10. Of the beata vita. Chapters 20–23

a) The How of Having beata vita

b) The gaudium de veritate

c) Veritas in the Direction of Falling

§ 11. The How of Questioning and Hearing. Chapters 24–27

§ 12. The curare (Being Concerned) as the Basic Character of Factical Life. Chapters 28 and 29

a) The Dispersion of Life

b) The Conflict of Life

§ 13. The First Form of tentatio: concupiscentia carnis. Chapters 30–34

a) The Three Directions of the Possibility of Defluxion

b) The Problem of the “I am”

c) Voluptas

d) Illecebra odorum

e) Voluptas aurium

f) Voluptas oculorum

g) Operatores et sectatores pulchritudinum exteriorum

§ 14. The Second Form of tentatio: concupiscentia oculorum. Chapter 35

a) Videre in carne and videre per carnem

b) The Curious Looking-about-Oneself in the World

§ 15. The Third Form of tentatio: ambitio saeculi. Chapters 36–38

a) A Comparison of the First Two Forms of Temptation

b) Timeri velle and amari velle

c) Amor laudis

d) The Genuine Direction of placere

§ 16. Self-importance. Chapter 39

§ 17. Molestia—the Facticity of Life

a) The How of the Being of Life

b) Molestia—the Endangerment of Having-of-Oneself

APPENDIX I

Notes and Sketches for the Lecture Course

Augustine, “Confessiones”—“confiteri,” “interpretari” [on § 7 b]

On the Destruction of Confessiones X [on § 7 b]

Enactmental Complex of the Question [on § 8 b]

Tentatio [on § 12 a]

[Oneri mihi sum] [on § 12 a]

[on § 13 a]

Tentatio [on § 13 a, b]

The Phenomenon of tentatio [on § 13 c]

Light [on § 13 f]

Deus lux [on § 13 g]

Tentatio: in carne—per carnem [on § 14 a]

[A Comparison of the Three Forms of tentatio] [on § 15 a]

Axiologization [on § 15 b–d]

[Agnoscere ordinem] [on § 15 c]

[on § 15 c]

[Four Groups of Problems]

Sin

Axiologization [on § 17]

[Molestia] [on § 17]

[Exploratio]

[Anxiety]

[The Counter-Expected, the Temptation, the Appeal]

On the Destruction of Plotinus

APPENDIX II

Supplements from the Notes of Oskar Becker

1. Continentia [Supplement to § 12 a]

2. Uti and frui [Supplement to § 12 b]

3. Tentatio [Supplement following § 12 b]

4. The confiteri and the Concept of Sin [Supplement following § 13 b]

5. Augustine's Position on Art (“De Musica”) [Supplement following § 13 e]

6. Videre (lucem) deum [Supplement following § 13 g]

7. Intermediary Consideration of timor castus [Supplement following § 16]

8. The Being of the Self [Concluding Part of Lecture]

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM

Outlines and Sketches for a Lecture, Not Held, 1918–1919

The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism

Mysticism in the Middle Ages

Mysticism (Directives)

Construction (Starting Points)

Faith and Knowledge

Irrationalism

Historical Pre-givenness and the Finding of Essence

[Religious Phenomena]

The Religious a priori

Irrationality in Meister Eckhart

On Schleiermacher's Second Address “On the Essence of Religion”

Phenomenology of Religious Experience and of Religion

The Absolute

Hegel's Original, Earliest Position on Religion—and Consequences

Problems

Faith

Piety—Faith

On Schleiermacher, “Christian Faith”—and Phenomenology of Religion in General

The Holy

On the Sermones Bernardi in canticum canticorum (Serm. III.)

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Afterword of the Editors of the Lecture Course Winter Semester 1920–21

Afterword of the Editor of the Lecture Course Summer Semester 1921 and of the Outlines and Sketches 1918–19

Glossary of Key Terms