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It would be hard to find a better example of modern atheistic philosophy's love affair with religion, or a more poignant one of the effort of a modern intellectual to keep the faith while eschewing belief. -- "Religious Studies Review
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1. PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY. Modern philosophy, unlike medieval philosophy, begins with man. Read the first page
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Dr. Kaufmann's humbition (his coinage for humility and ambition) to make people see "beyond black and white" is beautifully revealed in all his books including the "Critique of Religion and Philosophy". He explains how theology is dying despite its desperate measures to incorporate the philosophy of different ages from Aristotle to Heidegger in its Procrustean exegesis of the bible. He sheds light on veils of truth - subjective and objective -, the difference between truth and correctness, and belief and atheism to lay bare the complacent simple mindedness of such classifications. The concept of great philosophy has been shown to exist between analysis and existentialism, poetry and science, and a few philosophers' total disregard for psychology and a psychologist's over-interpretation. He compares various religions and scriptures for their humane, authoritarian, poetic and moral aspects, hints at Greek tragedy and shows what timeless appeal there is in their Weltanschauungs "to man's ontological interest." The author of this book, dares his readers to read well, and to reread; to think, and to rethink, more openly and vigorously. He aptly called himself "a disciple of the sarcastic Socrates."
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This is my favorite book, fiction or nonfiction, ever. It is an explicit and captivating critique that is both detailed and highly readable. This book is one of the few philosophical books that I have ever read that actually made me laugh. A well crafted and beautiful piece of work. It demonstrates not only the limits of religion/theology but the limits of philosophy as well. I will read this book again and again.
2 of 25 people found the following review helpful
"A learned twaddler who at the bottom knows nothing can seldom be got to deal with anything concrete; he does not talk of a particular dialogue of Plato, that is too little for him-also it might become apparent that {he had not read it.} No, he talks about Plato as a whole, or even Greek philosophy as a whole, but especially about the wisdom of the Indians and the Chinese. This Greek philosophy as a whole, the profundity of Oriental philosophy as a whole is the prodigiously great, the boundless, which advantageously hides his ignorance. So it is much easier to talk about an alteration in the forum of government than discuss a very little concrete problem like sewing a pair of shoes, and the injustice towards a few capable men lies in the fact that by reason of the prodigious greatness of the problem they are apparently an par with every peer, who "also speaks out" {So it is much easier for a dunce to criticize our Lord than to judge the handiwork of the apprentice in a shop, yea, than to judge a sulfur match.} For if only the problem is concrete, he will, it is soon to be hoped, soon betray how stupid he is. {But our Lord and his Governance of the world is something so prodigiously great that in a certain giddy abstract sense the most foolish man takes part in gossiping about it as well as the wisest man, because no one understands it."} Kierkegaard (A&R 31-32)
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