Tag: spirituality
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Perpetual Peace as Rational Capacity: Nature, Antagonism, and the Exercise of Reason in Kant’s Political Philosophy
The lecture Kant on Perpetual Peace as Capacity proposes that Kant’s idea of perpetual peace must be grasped neither as a naturally given condition of human coexistence nor as a merely regulative horizon that forever eludes realization, but as a rational capacity whose very being consists in its exercise under historically and politically concrete conditions.…
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Žižek’s Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy
Žižek’s Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy stakes its claim on a double front: it proposes a reconstruction of materialism adequate to contemporary quantum physics and, inseparably, a reconstruction of historical and political agency under conditions in which no neutral standpoint outside quantum indeterminacy and symbolic distortion is available. The book’s distinctive contribution lies in…
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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…
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Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla’s Kant and the Problem of Nothingness, recently translated into English by Addison Ellis, marks a pivotal recovery of a neglected yet profoundly original philosophical voice from Latin America. Originally published in 1965, Mayz Vallenilla’s text undertakes a systematic investigation of the concept of nothing (nada) within the architecture of Kant’s Critique of…
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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—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
In the tremors of our contemporary world, where the horizon of certainty has fractured under the weight of unprecedented shifts, one confronts two primordial dimensions that shape every aspect of existence: the abyss and the void. The two, at once unsettling and generative, stand at the heart of the human project, calling into question the…
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Welt und Zeit—Destiny, 10:47—12. Februar 2025
Destiny names the abiding sense that certain outcomes or paths in life are foreordained, bound up in a cosmic or existential ordering that transcends conscious decision. Thrust into popular imagination as well as philosophical discourse, destiny often merges with fate, suggesting a hidden design or necessity that governs the arc of events. Although they both…
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Welt und Zeit—Illusion, 17:36—11. Februar 2025
Illusion occupies a paradoxical position at the heart of human experience, engaging solace and self-deception, hope and distortion, and binding the subject to both personal fantasy and broader cultural constructs. In its most elementary sense, illusion captivates through the promise of protection from the rigors of daily existence; yet, as analytic insight teaches, it can…
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In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge
In the Depth of the Concept Lies Truth’s Essence; Its True Expression Unfolds in the Scientific System, Where Negativity Becomes the Source of Life. Table of Contents Abstract This work, In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge, analyses the relationship between philosophical inquiry and scientific understanding, as explored through the lens of…
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‘Statement on the True Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to the Revised Fichtean Doctrine: An Elucidation of the Former’ by F. W. J. Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s Statement on the True Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to the Revised Fichtean Doctrine is an impassioned philosophical treatise that encapsulates Schelling’s ultimate confrontation with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Composed in 1806, this work stands not only as Schelling’s final major engagement with the philosophy of nature but also as a…
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The Supersensible Realm: Law, Flux, and the Unity of Understanding
Beyond appearance lies the supersensible—a realm where constancy and flux converge in the universal truth of understanding.. Table of Contents Abstract: In The Supersensible Realm: Law, Flux, and the Unity of Understanding, the exploration of consciousness ascends beyond the sensory and perceptual world, delving into the dialectical interplay of forces, the emergence of universal laws,…
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Perception and Deception: The Cycle of Truth and Illusion
How Consciousness Navigates the Tension Between Essential Essence and Inessential Abstraction. Table of Contents Abstract: In Perception and Deception, the dynamics of perception and its contradictions are explored through a dialectical lens. Consciousness initially perceives the object in its singularity, positing it as a unified truth, only to encounter the tension of opposing abstractions. These…
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The This and the Universal: Revisiting Sensory Certainty and Meaning
Through the interplay of the immediate and the universal, sensory certainty reveals itself as a dynamic process of becoming, where meaning is not fixed but continuously transformed. Table of Contents Abstract: This work delves into the nature of sensory certainty, exploring how the seemingly simple and immediate perception of objects is inherently entangled with the…
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The Path of Spirit: From Appearance to Absolute Knowing
Consciousness transcends its limitations, revealing the unity of essence and appearance in the journey toward absolute knowledge. Table of Contents Abstract: This introduction explores the journey of consciousness as it moves toward its true existence and the realization of absolute knowing. The work begins by highlighting the common dilemma of philosophy: how cognition, as either…
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Table of Contents SYSTEM OF SCIENCE. FIRST PART,THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT CONTENTS APPENDICES EDITORIAL NOTES SYSTEM OF SCIENCEbyGe. Wilh. Fr. Hegel,Doctor and Professor of Philosophy in Jena,Assessor of the Ducal Mineralogical Society there,and Member of other learned societies. First Part,The Phenomenology of Spirit. Bamberg and Würzburg,Published by Joseph Anton Goebhardt,1807 CONTENTS. Preface: On Scientific Knowledge.…
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience is an exploration of the intrinsic relationship between human experience and the scientific endeavor. Authored by astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson, this work presents a compelling argument for the integration of the human perspective within science, asserting that human experience…
Simon Gros 