Tag: christianity
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Evil’s Actuality and the Modal Ground of Hope: Kantian Hylomorphism, Anthropological Standpoints, and the Structure of the Good
The lecture delivers an ambitious thesis: that the actuality of evil—conceived as the rational subordination of the moral law to self-love—discloses, in actu, the very modal structure that also makes the good materially possible, and thus gives warrant to hope for its predominance. Its distinctive contribution lies in rethreading Kant’s three guiding questions through a…
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G. K. Chesterton’ Orthodoxy
Chesterton’ Orthodoxy presents itself as an intellectual experiment whose distinctive contribution lies in demonstrating, by autobiographical method and argumentative pressure, that classical Christian doctrine functions as a methodological key for holding together experiences that otherwise disintegrate into skepticism, sentimentality, or fanaticism. Its scholarly stake is to exhibit how a determinate creed—summarized by the Apostles’ Creed—does…
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Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology
Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology presents Herder’s lifelong wager that history becomes intelligible only when narrated as the becoming of humanity—not a thin abstraction but a living principle that binds language, climate, custom, belief, and art into a single, ever-unfinished text. The editors, Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze, organize thirty-eight selections…
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Hegel’s Studies & Four Sermons (1792-1794) With Explanatory Footnotes
Table of Contents Four Sermons (1792–1793)First SermonSecond SermonThird SermonFourth Sermon Studies (1792/93–1794)In What Respect Is Religion…But the Principle Material…Our Tradition…Already in the Architecture…Religion Is One of the Most Important Matters…Aside from Oral Instruction…It Cannot Be Denied…The Constitutions of States…How Little Objective Religion…Public Authority…On the Difference in the Scene of DeathOn Objective Religion…It Would Be a…
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Welt und Zeit—From Zizians to Zizekians, 22:39—5. March 2025
From the earliest rumblings of philosophical rumination on the nature of being, there has always dwelled a fascination with the exchanges between ruptures in social order and the structures of thought that attempt to subdue or master them. Yet in an era where so many convictions claim to grasp the meaning of world and time,…
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Welt und Zeit—Acumen & Evil, 04:48—1. March 2025
Acumen, that razor-edged acuity of mind, occupies a paradoxical space at the intersection of knowledge and morality. It denotes a keen, incisive intelligence—a capacity to discern subtleties and penetrate complexities—and yet this very sharpness can cut either way. We often celebrate acumen as a virtue of the intellect, but the ontological question arises: what is…
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Welt und Zeit—Ontology, 17:23—11. Februar 2025
Ontology is the relentless unveiling of what it means for anything—and everything—to be, the ceaseless attempt to articulate the fundamental structures undergirding existence and to recognize the shared horizon in which human beings encounter a world they simultaneously constitute and inhabit. Ontology is not merely a catalog of entities or a bare enumeration of concepts;…
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion | One-Volume Edition: The Lectures of 1827
The Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion in their 1827 iteration represent one of the clearest and most mature expressions of Hegel’s complex and comprehensive philosophical system, focusing explicitly on the concept of religion and its place in human life and thought. Hegel, a towering figure in German Idealism, integrates religion into his broader dialectical…
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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
Few thinkers in the history of philosophy have elicited such passionate and polarized reactions as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose work continues to provoke both ardent admiration and fierce dismissal. Some critics see him as an inscrutable charlatan whose dense metaphysical speculations border on obscurantism, while others regard him as one of the most profound…
Simon Gros 