Schleiermacher and the Ethics of Authenticity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760492 |
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| Authors | Brent W Sockness (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 477-517 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2004.00175.x |
| OpenAlex | W2036124173 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Schleiermacher's Soliloquies not only represent a pivotal work in this classically modern theologian's development as a moral philosopher. They are also arguably the principal moral writing of the early German romantic movement and therefore a significant, if widely overlooked, contribution to the history of ethics in the West. This essay provides a comprehensive interpretation and modest retrieval of this unusual and difficult work by bringing Schleiermacher's early “ethics of individuality” into conversation with Charles Taylor's conception of “expressivist” understandings of human selfhood. It argues that the Monologen are a signal instance of what Taylor has subtly characterized as romanticism's expressivist impulse
Art · Conversation · Epistemology · Expressivism · German · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Romanticism · Sociology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious Education and Schools · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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