When1: 1822
Who: Friedrich E. D. Schleiermacher [Schleiermacher, Friedrich E. D.]
What: theologian
Where: Berlin, Germany
works\ Christian Faith [1822]
Detail: He lived 1768 to 1834 and founded Schleiermacherian School of Plato and Protestantism.
Epistemology
He invented a theory of how to interpret texts {hermeneutics, Schleiermacher}. Analyze text language and author mind and development. Relate parts to whole text. Knowledge gained can find new knowledge, which expands knowledge {hermeneutic circle}.
The goal of knowledge is to show identity of being and thought, which appear separate in consciousness as perception and conception. This goal can never have complete attainment. As method, presuppose that they are the same as God and try to understand process involved in uniting them.
Ethics
Religion is communion with, and absolute dependence on, God, universal, infinity, or unified thought and being. Religion is not about knowing or doing right actions.
All ethical action is for uniting nature and reason. This is the moral and natural law.
People develop lives in particular ways based on natural law, nature, and harmony. Aristocrats live life fully, cultivate sensibilities, and ignore rules and laws as unnecessary.
Metaphysics
Absolute Good or Infinite has Ideas in Mind.
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