On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

…into emergent Romanticism in his On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (1799). Refusing to identify religion with metaphysics or morals, Schleiermacher located its essence in intuition (Anschauung) and feeling (Gefühl), the “sense and taste for the infinite” (Sinn und Geschmack fürs Unendliche). The founder of Christianity, Schleiermacher noted in…

…Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern (On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers), written in 1799 as a kind of literary confession, Schleiermacher addressed the Romantics with the message that they were not as far from religion as they thought, for religion is the “feeling and intuition of the universe” or…

…early work, specifically his book Über die Religion. Reden an die Gebilden unter ihren Verächtern (1799; On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, 1893), to which Otto gave particular attention. What appealed to him in this work was Schleiermacher’s fresh way of perceiving religion as a unique feeling or awareness,…

…Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) in his On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. He attempted there to carve out a separate territory for religious experience, as distinct from both science and morality. For him the central attitude in religion is “the feeling of absolute dependence.” In drawing attention to the affective…