In this chapter of the Hebrew book Reflections on Dilemmas in Our Time (פרקי עיון לנבוכי זמננו, Dvir, Tel Aviv 1970, 66–70), Schächter answers questions of his many readers and critics in Israel. He outlines his intellectual trajectory in the context of his time working within the Vienna Circle: Even while he was still in Vienna, Schächter writes, he knew that he could not remain an “only-positivist-positivist”. Even then, he was looking for a connection between logic and religion with the aim of creating a new theology. After having differentiated the religious from the scientific sphere, Schächter understood that not only a differentiation but also an integration of the two linguistic spheres was utterly necessary for him as a religious intellectual. However, religious thought and commands can never be brought into the descriptive sphere, according to Schächter, as the experiential-emotional aspect of faith requires a different form of expression. His attempts to “give expression to the inexpressible”, to find a way to express that linguistic sphere of religion, have led him to, among other things, his lively publishing activity in Israel. Perhaps the intellectual trajectory of Schächter—from a logical linguistic sphere towards adding a religious one—is also connected with the different linguistic spaces in which he worked: It is possible that the integration of a “religious sphere” and a “logical sphere” in Hebrew, the language of everyday life as well as of the Torah, is attainable in a different way.

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Differentiation and Integration

  • Esther Heinrich-Ramharter,
  • Friedrich Stadler

摘要

In this chapter of the Hebrew book Reflections on Dilemmas in Our Time (פרקי עיון לנבוכי זמננו, Dvir, Tel Aviv 1970, 66–70), Schächter answers questions of his many readers and critics in Israel. He outlines his intellectual trajectory in the context of his time working within the Vienna Circle: Even while he was still in Vienna, Schächter writes, he knew that he could not remain an “only-positivist-positivist”. Even then, he was looking for a connection between logic and religion with the aim of creating a new theology. After having differentiated the religious from the scientific sphere, Schächter understood that not only a differentiation but also an integration of the two linguistic spheres was utterly necessary for him as a religious intellectual. However, religious thought and commands can never be brought into the descriptive sphere, according to Schächter, as the experiential-emotional aspect of faith requires a different form of expression. His attempts to “give expression to the inexpressible”, to find a way to express that linguistic sphere of religion, have led him to, among other things, his lively publishing activity in Israel. Perhaps the intellectual trajectory of Schächter—from a logical linguistic sphere towards adding a religious one—is also connected with the different linguistic spaces in which he worked: It is possible that the integration of a “religious sphere” and a “logical sphere” in Hebrew, the language of everyday life as well as of the Torah, is attainable in a different way.