Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION
Winter Semester 1920–21
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
Chapter Two
Current Tendencies of the Philosophy of Religion
§ 5. Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religion
Chapter Three
The Phenomenon of the Historical
§ 7. The Historical as Core Phenomenon
b) The Concept of the Historical
c) The Historical in Factical Life Experience
§ 8. The Struggle of Life against the Historical
c) Compromise between the Two Positions
a) The Relation of the Tendency-to-Secure
b) The Sense of the Historical Itself
§ 10. The Concern of Factical Dasein
Chapter Four
Formalization and Formal Indication
§ 11. The General Sense of “Historical”
§ 12. Generalization and Formalization
Chapter One
Phenomenological Interpretation of the Letters to the Galatians
§ 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
§ 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”
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
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
§ 9. The memoria. Chapters 8–19
d) The discere and Theoretical Acts
e) The Affects and Their Manner of Givenness
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
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
§ 13. The First Form of tentatio: concupiscentia carnis. Chapters 30–34
a) The Three Directions of the Possibility of Defluxion
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
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
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]
The Phenomenon of tentatio [on § 13 c]
Tentatio: in carne—per carnem [on § 14 a]
[A Comparison of the Three Forms of tentatio] [on § 15 a]
[Agnoscere ordinem] [on § 15 c]
[The Counter-Expected, the Temptation, the Appeal]
On the Destruction of Plotinus
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
Construction (Starting Points)
Historical Pre-givenness and the Finding of Essence
Irrationality in Meister Eckhart
On Schleiermacher's Second Address “On the Essence of Religion”
Phenomenology of Religious Experience and of Religion
Hegel's Original, Earliest Position on Religion—and Consequences
On Schleiermacher, “Christian Faith”—and Phenomenology of Religion in General
On the Sermones Bernardi in canticum canticorum (Serm. III.)
Afterword of the Editors of the Lecture Course Winter Semester 1920–21