Studies in Religion Under German Masters (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERDER.1 There are many signs that educated Englishmen generally are growing daily more alive to the fact that the thinker and student of modern wisdom must make himself acquainted with German thought. The present position of this he can understand only as he studies the great leaders of it who lived during the last half of the preceding and the first half of the present century. Nay, more; the Germans themselves confess that there are many veins of truth in the works of their great leaders of this period stillwaiting to be worked. Lessing, Kant, Herder, and Goethe are still marching at the head of German thought in many fields. The present is for the Fatherland of Thought the age of Epigoni. 1 Johann Gottfried von Herder's Sammtliche Werke: Zur -schSnen Literatur und Kunst, 20 vols.; zur Philosophic und Geschichte, 22 vols.; zur Religion und Theologie, 18 vols. (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1827-1830). J. G. v. Herder's Lebensbild: Mitgetheilt von seinem Sohne Dr. Emil Gottfr. v. Herder (Erlangen, 1846), published vol. i.-iii. Part I. only). Weimarisches Herder-Album (Jena, 1845). Ideen zur Geschichte der Menschheit von Johann Gottfried von Herder: Mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Julian Schmidt, 3 vols. (Leipsic, 1869). Der Cid. Nach Spanischen Romanzen besungen durch Johann Gottfried von Herder: Mit einer Einleitung uber Herder und seine Bedeutung fur die Deutsche Literatur herausgegeben von Julian Schmidt (Leipsic, 1868). Herder als Seligions-Philosoph: Inaugural Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwiirde von Heinrich Erdmann (Hersfeld, 1866). Aus Herder's Nachlass: Herausgegeben von H. Duntzer u. F. G. v. Herder, 3 vols. (Frankfurt, 1856-57). In art, Goethe, without doubt, best deserves reverent study; in metaphysics, with all his faults, Kant will yield...