Enlightenment reason bowed to faith by declaring God unknowable
Evidence
After its battle with religion the best reason could manage was to take a look at itself and come to self-awareness. Reason, having in this way become mere intellect, acknowledges its own nothingness by placing that which is better than it in a faith outside and above itself, as a ‘beyond’ (Jenseits) to be believed in. This is what has happened in the philosophies of Kant, Jacobi and Fichte. Philosophy has made itself the handmaiden of a faith once more. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 792
Categorization
- XREF: Hegel’s critique of Kant’s unknowable thing-in-itself as reason submitting to faith connects to the dialectical reversal theme central to Malabou’s plasticity reading. — connects to: Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122; Revealed Religion and Enlightenment philosophy share one structural content despite apparent opposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 809; Enlightenment reason politics drove attacks on Christianity as irrational — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 158
Broader Connections
- Enlightenment reason politics drove attacks on Christianity as irrational
#contradicts(0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 158 - Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it
#qualifies(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122 - Revealed Religion and Enlightenment philosophy share one structural content despite apparent opposition
#corroborates(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 809