I was disturbed by problems in faith and almost immediately after that I discovered the Kant Friesian site on the Internet of Dr Kelley Ross. [I might have the order of events mixed up. It could be the first time I noticed Dr Ross was in his essay on Spinoza.] In any case his approach to issues of faith and what is called numinous value helped me immensely.
Still however, I do admit that that school of thought [based on Kant and Leonard Nelson] seems a bit too dismissal of Hegel.
In any case, I realized that there are lots of problems in faith that seem to beyond the realm of reason to answer; and also there seem to be values in faith which seem beyond reason to comprehend.
So the whole idea of non intuitive immediate knowledge makes a lot of sense to me.
[I might mention that the approach of Dr Ross is named after Kant and Fries, but is very much based also on Schopenhauer and Popper.]
This is more or less all part of German Idealism. But it intersects with John Locke and natural law in terms of self, the autonomous individual. English thought all through that time was going in totally different directions. That is,- a lot of the intellectual energy of the English was spent on Protestant issues and the crown. You can more or less trace a straight line in English thought from Henry VIII and the English Dissidents, Daniel Defoe, until the Constitution of the USA.
But there is a point where both streams of thought intersect in natural law and the autonomy of the individual.
The issue of human rights was a major topic in England from the aspect of the King's right as opposed or separate from Parliament and Parliament as different from the Commons and that as different from the People. All these issues were later reflected in Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson.
[It did not all start just with John Locke.]
Still however, I do admit that that school of thought [based on Kant and Leonard Nelson] seems a bit too dismissal of Hegel.
In any case, I realized that there are lots of problems in faith that seem to beyond the realm of reason to answer; and also there seem to be values in faith which seem beyond reason to comprehend.
So the whole idea of non intuitive immediate knowledge makes a lot of sense to me.
[I might mention that the approach of Dr Ross is named after Kant and Fries, but is very much based also on Schopenhauer and Popper.]
This is more or less all part of German Idealism. But it intersects with John Locke and natural law in terms of self, the autonomous individual. English thought all through that time was going in totally different directions. That is,- a lot of the intellectual energy of the English was spent on Protestant issues and the crown. You can more or less trace a straight line in English thought from Henry VIII and the English Dissidents, Daniel Defoe, until the Constitution of the USA.
But there is a point where both streams of thought intersect in natural law and the autonomy of the individual.
The issue of human rights was a major topic in England from the aspect of the King's right as opposed or separate from Parliament and Parliament as different from the Commons and that as different from the People. All these issues were later reflected in Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson.
[It did not all start just with John Locke.]
