The Philosophy of Life, and, Philosophy of Language - In a Course of Lectures (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...application. For this highest of all hieroglyphies, which is the beginning of a new life, forms also the foundation of the state in its sacred character. And because the application of Christian truth and of the fundamental idea of Christianity is in general so greatly mistaken, I have thought it necessary to remount somewhat higher in my investigations, to draw from a deeper source, and to connect them with a higher principle, in order to arrive more steadily and more certainly at the result which I had in view. And this result may be thus summed up: --The Christian state is nothing less than symbolical, and even thereby historically sanctified--whereas the mere polity of nature or that of reason, which, however artistical and consummate a its constitution, remains all the while false and unsauetified, is either purely dynamical or else absolute. In human life and society there are three specie of power, which possess a symbolical significance and a sacred character as resting on a divine foundation. And these are parental authority, the spiritual or priestly power, and the kingly or whatever may be the supreme authority in the state. The SANCTITY OF PARENTAX AUTHORITY. 219 affectionate care and anxiety of an earthly parent possesses btrt a faint analogy to the goodness and providence of the omniscient and eternal Father of all, and is scarcely more than a type of it. Moreover, the parental authority and a father's rights over his children, founded on his relation as the loving and affectionate author of their being, admits not of being set forth and comprised in any exact and positive formularies. And even if the social community occasionally steps in to determine by legislation the limits, and in certain points gives its sanction to the domestic rights an..

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Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
Release date:	December 2014
Authors:	Friedrich von Schlegel
Translators:	A. J. W Morrison
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	580
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-07954-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	1-108-07954-7
Barcode:	9781108079549

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