Abstract

John Taber brings to this study many insights in a well-written and energetic work. He has chosen a challenging task: making understandable three formidable mystics Sankara Fichte, and Heidegger. They all took pride in shifting attention from reason and sense experience to faith and tradition. Of Fichte’s account of Kant’s philosophy, Kant said: “God, save us only from our friends: we can cope with our enemies!”. Sankara and Heidegger also never cease to astonish philosophers who take rationality seriously.