Otto, Rudolf O Philosophers

Otto, Rudolf O Philosophers

Otto, Rudolf

Rudolf Otto, 1869-1937. German philosopher of religion who sought to categorize the numinous states of experience which underlie religion. He was an associate of Leonard Nelson, who introduced him to the Friesian school of Kantian thought.

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See Also:

- A brief excerpt on numinosity from his The Idea of the Holy.
- An account of Otto's relation to Kantian-Friesian thought, and the encumbrance which that rationalistic tradition may have been for him.
- Resource page including biographical and extensive bibliographical information. Also features several online texts in both German and English.
- Kelley L. Ross uses this modern writer as a case study in typical contemporary treatments of Otto's theory of numinosity.
- Concise biographical information.

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