Abstract
It is a matter of common knowledge, that feeling forms the center of Schleiermacher's religious thought. However, while using the same word feeling, between the concept of feeling in the definition of religion as the intuition and feeling of the universe in the first edition of his maiden work, Discourse on Religion (1799), and the feeling of absolute dependence in the second edition of his The Christian Faith
(1830), representative of the work of his later period, a great change can be seen in the content of that term. In this presentation I will show you a great change in the concept feeling in the second edition of Discourse on Religion (1806) and I am sure that feeling in this second edition already contains a content which corresponds with the feeling of absolute dependence of his later period.
First of all by a comparative examination of the concept of religion in the first and second editions of Discourse on Religion, the difference in the concept of feeling in the two will be made clear. Next, as the motivation for that change the discord between Schleiermacher and Schelling is examined, and finally the problem of the interpretation of the concept of feeling and its meaning in the history of modern philosophy will be examined. In this point the most important figure is Johann Gottfried Herder.
