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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

The course of Schleiermacher's life and thought between the years 1789 and 1804 is the subject of this dissertation. It is organized in three chapters, each centering in a principal manuscript or publication: I. On the Freedom of Man (1792); II. On Religion: Speeches to the Cultured among its Despisers (1799); and III. Monologues: A New Year's Gift (1800). These works are illustrated and supplemented by citations from Schleiermacher's personal correspondence and incidents from his life, the purpose here being to provide both an analysis of Schleiermacher's thought and at the same time a portrait of the man, lacking in English till now. Schleiermacher's commitment to a philosophy of determinism was at the basis of his understanding of human freedom, denned very nearly as Spinoza denned it (and in opposition to Kant), as the absence of constraint. Phantasy, as the most free or unconstrained of all a man's capacities, was for Schleiermacher, as for Shelley, "the organ of the moral nature of man" — the most facile means of empathizing with another's point of view, as well as an inevitable component in all our perceptions of the world.