Schleiermacher: “I repudiated rational thought in favour of a theology of feeling.”

This article in Oxford Academic notes that “Kant’s philosophy is one of the most important presuppositions of Schleiermacher’s thought and that his work would have been unthinkable without Kant’s.” 

* Source: Schleiermacher, Friedrich. The Christian Faith [1821-22]. Ed. H. R. Mackintosh and J. S. Stewart, Harper and Row, 1963. Related: On Schleiermacher’s place in the post-Kantian historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:

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