4.2 Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer
Last modified 05/17/2008
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A very remarkable outcome of the Kantian revolution is visible in the brief
flowering of philosophy in his wake. This flash of effects is an immense study
in itself, but we can look at the sudden polarization of Hegel and Schopenhauer
in the context of our thinking about religion and secularism. We see,
remarkably, one philosopher try to reinvent Christianity, as it were, and the
other, Buddhism. Particularly in the case of Schopenhauer we see an instant
clarification of the nature of many ancient sutras from Indian religion in the
renewed context of transcendental idealism. Schopenhauer produces an effective
framework for the recasting these ancient perspectives in the context of the
modern scientific world view.
Almost as mysterious as these divide-clustered effects is their sudden waning, and by the mid-century the onset of scientism will become the dominant cultural force, to the impoverishment of the meaning and significance of secularism. |
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