The Phenomenology of Religious Life
Heidegger, Martin. The Phenomenology of Religious Life . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. Part 1 Methodological Introduction Chap.1 To the sciences, introduction means to present the domain of the subject matter , and the methodological treatment of that domain, and a historical overview of the various attempts at solutions. Philosophy arises from factical life experience. What philosophy is can only be made clear in philosophizing itself. "The point of departure of the path to philosophy is factical life experience." (p.8) Experience has a worldly character and emphasizes significance. Chap.2 Troeltsch's goal is the working out of a scientifically valid, essential determination of religion. He has a fourfold concept of the essence of religion: psychological, epistemological, historical, metaphysical. (p.19) Chap.3 The core phenomenon is the "historical". Historical means becoming, emergence, proceeding in time, a characterizati...