Mysticism and Guilt-Consciousness in Schelling's by Paul Tillich

Mysticism and Guilt-Consciousness in Schelling's by Paul Tillich

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Moreover, there never exists in reason the necessity to go beyond itself. Affirmation of the idea of God occurs without the force of truth. Consequently, certainty with respect to God is lacking. On principle, the moral proof that Kant has attempted is a critique of every proof that wants to demonstrate the existence of a God who is different from reason. Reason is certain only of itself, of its own autonomous legislation. If thought is to proceed consistently from this point, it must develop a new proof, indeed, one in which the basis of the proof and what is to be proved are identical, as it is in the case of the ontological proof.

It is only possible to get beyond a series of particular causes, if we surpass the causal relation itself as a cate- < G a 36 MYSTICISM AND GUILT-CONSCIOUSNESS gory of finitude" (Strauss 1:382). 15 As long asthe unconditioned stands beyond the conditioned it is itself a particular and, to that extent, conditioned: its unconditioned character can he preserved only if it is conceived in identity with the conditioned. ). The unconditioned is not causality but substance, hut substance not in a precritical, Spinozistic sense, but in the form made necessary by the critique of the concept of substance, so that substance is subject, spirituality, rationaiity.

Therefore, it is impossible, by means of causality, to go beyond the conditioned. "It is only possible to get beyond a series of particular causes, if we surpass the causal relation itself as a cate- < G a 36 MYSTICISM AND GUILT-CONSCIOUSNESS gory of finitude" (Strauss 1:382). 15 As long asthe unconditioned stands beyond the conditioned it is itself a particular and, to that extent, conditioned: its unconditioned character can he preserved only if it is conceived in identity with the conditioned.

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