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Translators' Foreword
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION
Winter Semester 192021
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 2326]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (II) (I Thess.) [on 2326]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (III) (I Thess.) [on 2326]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (IV) [on 2326]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (V) [on 2326]
Enactmental-Historical Understanding [on 24]
Eschatology I (I Thess.) [on 26]
Eschatology II (I Thess.) [on 26]
Eschatology IIII (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 17
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 819
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 2023
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 2427
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 3034
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 3638
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 bd]
[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, 19181919]
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 192021
Afterword of the Editor of the Lecture Course Summer Semester 1921 and of the Outlines and Sketches 191819
Glossary of Key Terms
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Religion Philosophy, Phenomenology