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  • Title: Book: RoP: The World Conception of the Greek Thinkers (Pt1 Ch2)
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    • that he and his disciples meant to serve “other gods” than
    • were satisfied with their gods. Pythagoras considered these gods as
    • to the human soul an origin different from that of the gods of the
    • higher than the gods of the popular religion? In what other form than
    • For Pythagoras the mythical gods must be replaced by thought. At the
    • Xenophanes finds that the popular gods cannot stand the test of
    • thought; therefore, he rejects them. His god must be capable of being
    • seek what is permanent. Therefore, God is the unchangeable, eternal
    • “Farewell. A mortal no longer, but an immortal god I wander about
    • through which it feels its own existence as that of a banished god who
  • Title: Book: RoP: Thought Life from the Beginning of the Christian Era to John Scotus Erigena (Pt1 Ch3)
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    • Godhead. In this entity, primordial being is united with primordial
  • Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages (Pt1 Ch4)
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    • knowledge ceases and in which the soul meets its god in “knowing
  • Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution (Pt1 Ch5)
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    • Giordano Bruno arrive at the conception of God. Aristotle contemplates
    • innumerable monads are presented as acting on each other; God becomes
    • idea of God. This idea presents itself to the ego as true, as distinct
    • and then subsequently in God, and because God must be thought as
    • truthful. For it would be untrue of God to suggest a real external
    • only one such substance, and that this substance is God. If one observes
    • do what is right, that is to say, god-filled action. This results as a
    • the world, the soul and God. This world conception rests on the
  • Title: Book: RoP: The Age of Kant and Goethe (Pt1 Ch6)
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    • much as the lecturer about the nature of things, the world and God,
    • conception of a personal God, of the freedom of will and of
    • wrote to his friend, “God has punished you with metaphysics and
    • to the atheist's (Spinoza's) worship of God and leave everything to
    • rests in belief in God; mine in seeing.” The
    • concepts of God and of the simple nature of our soul, which I
    • even assume God, freedom and immortality for the use of
    • Wolff's train of ideas. How can reason produce judgments about God,
    • God, Freedom and Immortality — can never become phenomena. We see the
    • intelligent being, determining the highest value of things: God.
    • this guarantee, in turn, the existence of God. Because man is a
    • to be good, not because of his belief in a God whose will demands the
    • believe in God, however, because duty without God would be
    • that of God, have to create the things.
    • world conception leaves God, freedom and immortality, to the religious
    • is God.” When the artist proceeds as the Greeks did, namely,
    • his works contain the same godly element that is to be found in nature
    • necessary and thereby divine laws,” such that “the godhead
    • see the thesis developed that nature conceals God, be welcome to me!
    • practised daily as it was — had taught me inviolably to see God in
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  • Title: Book: RoP: The Classics of World and Life Conception (Pt1 Ch7)
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    • beholdest the depth and the stars and the earth, thou seest thy God,
    • same God ruleth thee also . . . thou art created out of this
    • God and thou livest in Him; all thy knowledge also standeth in
    • this God and when thou diest thou wilt be buried in this God.”
    • turned into the contemplation of God, or theosophy. In 1809, when he
    • all things are divine, how can there be evil in the world since God
    • can only be perfect goodness? If the soul is in God, how can it still
    • follow its selfish interests? If God is and acts within me, how can I
    • contemplation of God rather than through world contemplation. It would
    • be entirely incongruous to God if a world of beings were created that
    • God is perfect only if he can create a world that is equal to himself
    • in perfection. A god who can produce only what is less perfect than
    • he, himself, is imperfect himself. Therefore, God has created beings
    • sure, comprised in God, yet not directly activated by him as a part in
    • God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. How he could find his
    • out of God, it can never be a mechanical succession, not a mere
    • self-dependent. The sequence of things out of God is a self-revelation
    • of God. God, however, can only become revealed to himself in an
    • own initiative, for whose existence there is no ground but God but who
    • are themselves like God.
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  • Title: Book: RoP: Reactionary World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch8)
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    • independently. Herbart arrives at his conception of God through his
    • “the pretensions of the systems that speak of God as of an object
    • be considered the “representation of God as he is in his eternal
    • individual God. Baader called it an “atheistic conception”
    • to believe that God attained a perfect existence only in man. God must
    • God's free creation, the product of his almighty will. These thinkers
    • processes. Whoever, like Hegel, looks for God in the world cannot find
    • him, for the world, to be sure, is in God, but God is not in the
    • of everything finite to be God itself, idolizing and confusing it with
    • God.” No matter how deep one may penetrate into the reality given
    • consciousness-permeated will-direction of God, such that he is only
    • gray idea. This living will is to “give to the inner godly nature
    • all places in the Holy Writ of the Old and New Testaments. In it, God
  • Title: Book: RoP: The Radical World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch2)
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    • “the representation of God as he was according to his eternal
    • “Man's knowledge of God is man's knowledge of himself, of his own
    • God's consciousness is, there is also God's being: it is,
    • supreme being itself. He replaces the wisdom of God completely by the
    • admission that the consciousness of God is nothing but the
    • of God. Nothing is real but the factual.
    • God created man after his image, which probably means that man created
    • God after his own image.
    • ridiculous to believe in God as it is nowadays to believe in ghosts.
    • Is our concept of God really anything but a personified mystery?
    • we must think should really be so. . . . In this way, then, no God can
    • friends of God to friends of men, from believers into thinkers, from
    • God was my first thought, reason my second and man my
    • a psychological explanation for the genesis of the concept of God. The
    • the historian. He did not, like Feuerbach, choose the concept of God
    • contemplation, but the Christian concept of the “God
    • is God made flesh, God incarnate. This is, according to Strauss, the
    • to criticize the Christian concept of the God incarnate. What,
    • individual, one God incarnate; in the idea of the human race,
    • this faculty the religious truth that the human race is God incarnate
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  • Title: Book: RoP: The Struggle Over the Spirit (Pt2 Ch1)
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    • before it sets out to develop a knowledge of God, the essence of
    • man in his entirety, God and the world, can only be founded on the
    • To assume God before nature is about the same as to assume the church
    • Energy is not a creative God; no essence of things is detachable from
    • right — I recognize no other source of right than myself. Neither God,
  • Title: Book: RoP: The World as Illusion (Pt2 Ch3)
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    • can accept a God who causes a moral order in the world. As soon as it
    • an infinite God.
  • Title: Book: RoP: World Conceptions of Scientific Factuality (Pt2 Ch5)
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    • immersion in the wellspring of existence, into the God within us.
    • which it believed in gods, and subsequently, one in which it
    • man's thinking projected anthropomorphic gods into the processes of
    • which man proceeds in his actions. Later, he replaces the gods with
  • Title: Book: RoP: Modern Idealistic World Conceptions (Pt2 Ch6)
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    • entity to be merely a creature of God, there is no
    • God only as long as its existence has a valuable significance for the
    • all-embracing spirit, the most perfect personality, God.
    • Real existence is the incarnation of the godhead. The world process is
    • the history of the passion of the incarnate God and at the same time
    • the path for the redemption of the God crucified in the flesh.
    • God. But this simple oneness is of the past; it is no
    • Mainländer, God created the world only in order to free himself from
    • purpose. God knew that he could change from a state of super-reality
  • Title: Book: RoP: Modern Man and His World Conception (Pt2 Ch7)
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    • conviction or for his belief in God, aims for nothing but his
    • Since we consider every being only as a creature of God, there
    • only maintain that every being will be preserved by God as long



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