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Work #734 · Late

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

Hermann Cohen
1918 (completed); 1919 (posthumous); 1929 (2nd ed.) · German
Systematic philosophical theology · Marburg neo-Kantianism / German-Jewish philosophy

Cohen's 1919 posthumous Marburg-neo-Kantian reconstruction of Judaism as the religion of reason

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Attribute Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

The messianic time of ethical progress.

Space

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

The ethical-political space of social action.

Matter

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

The embodied ethical agent.

Observer

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

The rational religious subject.

Energy

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

Energies of prophetic ethical action.

Information

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

The sources of Judaism as information.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism

Cohen's philosophical Judaism: a culminating moment of Marburg neo-Kantianism; foundational for Rosenzweig, Buber, and twentieth-century Jewish philosophy.