Tag: god
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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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Susan James presents ‘When does Truth Matter? The Politics of Spinoza’s Philosophy’
This lecture explores a central tension in Baruch Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: how can theology and philosophy be both strictly independent and yet arranged in a clear hierarchy of cognitive and ethical excellence? Written in the highly charged political and religious climate of the Dutch Republic, the Theological-Political Treatise was a polemical intervention in defence of…
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Aaron Garrett presents ‘Knowing the Essences of State in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus’
Spinoza’s political philosophy is often treated as detachable from his metaphysics and epistemology, as though the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise (TTP) addressed fundamentally different projects. This talk challenges that division. Reading the Ethics together with the TTP and the Political Treatise, it argues that Spinoza’s political theory is organised around a robust, though rarely…
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Catherine Malabou presents ‘Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity’
In the Theological-Political Treatise, Baruch Spinoza elaborates a daring conception of revelation in which God is nothing other than the immanent order of nature, and prophecy is rooted in the imagination rather than in a privileged speculative intellect. Prophets do not receive transparent concepts but vivid images and signs shaped by their temperament, prior beliefs,…
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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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The Science of Spirit: Emergence of the New Logic
PREFACE Over the last twenty-five years, the very ground on which we conduct philosophy has been torn open and reshaped. What once seemed an immutable landscape of neat categories and settled doctrines now reveals itself as a living, breathing field of conceptual forces in continual motion. Thought has turned its gaze inward, no longer willing…
Simon Gros 