Author: Heyde, Ludwig; Author: Translator Harmsen, Alexander
Suny Series in Hegelian Studies; Paperback
224 pages
Published: October 1999
State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791442667

Ludwig Heyde's award winning examination of the weight of finitude and its relation to God is translated here for the first time in English. Though philosophers may question if there still is room for God in philosophy after Nietzsche's pronouncement that God is dead, Heyde suggests that a full acceptance of the finitude of existence can lead to the affirmation of God. He criticizes conceptions that have unconsciously dominated our thinking since the Enlightenment In relation to the philosophical tradition -- Thomas Aquinas, Anselm, Descartes, Kant, and primarily Hegel, among others -- certain experiences are developed which thought can undergo when it goes to its limits and asks after the ground of all that is. At the same time, Heyde investigates how well the affirmation o