![]() ![]() In his study, Otto gives detailed descriptions of a peculiar affective dimension of religious life. ![]() It has influenced the work of Mircea Eliade, Max Scheler, Gerardus van der Leeuw, C.S. Keywords: Rudolf Otto atmosphere Dewey Kant Levinas phenomenologyĪmong the classics in philosophy of religion is Rudolf Otto's 1917 book Das Heilige (The Idea of the Holy). I then illustrate the yet unexhausted potential of these very claims by arguing that the numinous in Otto's sense plays an irreducible role in the ethical reflections of such distinct authors as Kant and Levinas. Drawing on those discussions helps defend some of Otto's claims about the relation between the non-rational, affective dimension and reason against the prevalent accusation of unscientific mysticism. Therefore, I draw on discussions in phenomenology and pragmatism, despite the fact that Otto's own epistemological framework is rooted in a different tradition. I argue that this notion is best understood in terms of an atmospheric quality impacting on the subject's feeling body. ![]() ![]() Received Jaccepted August 31, 2017Ībstract: In this paper, I investigate the non-rational, affective dimension of religious experience that Rudolf Otto attempted to address with his notion of the numinous. Rudolf Otto's "The Idea of the Holy" Revisited ![]()
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