First published in 1999, the primary operative thesis of the book
is that the Protestant Reformation cemented into Western
consciousness a conception of humanity as fundamentally depraved
and thus ushered in a conception of human reason far more
restricted in scope than that known to pre-reformation philosophy.
Though this study is essentially a work in the history of
philosophy, it lays the groundwork for an original philosophy of
language as well as offering a suggestion for a re-evaluation of
Hegel in the light of this approach to language. The book concludes
that what was in fact lost in the secular appropriation of the
total depravity of man was a conception of reason intimately linked
to the assumption that language and the general principles that
govern it stand in some way as the guarantors of the correspondence
of human thought and institutions and the world at large. At the
bottom of this is the loss of the classical understanding of the
faculty of practical reason.
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