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Art and social life: the Russian Revolution and the creative power of...
‘…it is not difficult to see that ours is a birth-time and a period of transition to a new era. Spirit has broken with the world it has hitherto inhabited and imagined, and is of a mind to submerge it...
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Hegel: Neoplatonist, Hermeticist, prose poet, concealed priest
10.10.13 Hegel wanted his philosophy to be known as an exemplary application of reason to its study. He wrote at great length on logic and on the syllogism. He held that truth can be known – through...
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The night (and day) in which all cows (including Hegel’s) are black
‘To pit this single insight, that in the Absolute everything is the same, against the full body of articulated cognition, which at least seeks and demands such fulfilment, to palm off its Absolute as...
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Hegel: Neoplatonist, Hermeticist, prose poet, concealed priest – part 2
Hegel’s philosophy was deliberately not propositional (philosophising thus was for him exemplary of the non-speculative rigidity of Verstand). His claim for its conceptual nature requires examination....
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Hegel: Neoplatonist, Hermeticist, prose poet, concealed priest – part 3
Hegel was true to his mystical heritage even in his advocacy for philosophy as a sanctuary for an isolated order of priests, in retreat from the world, from what Hegel believed to be the failures of...
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Hegel’s God: the Neoplatonic Self, and the world He creates within
‘It is I who produce that beyond; the finite and the infinite are equally my product, and I stand above both of them, both disappear in me. I am lord and master of this definition: I bring it forth....
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A madeleine and the vast structure of recollection
‘And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went...
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The earth is a noble star
‘Therefore, the earth is a noble star which has a light and a heat and an influence that are distinct and different from [that of] all other stars, just as each star differs from each other star with...
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Breaking News! Nicholas of Cusa failed Aristotle in First Philosophy!
NICHOLAS: I laud your remarks. And I add that also in another manner Aristotle closed off to himself a way for viewing the truth. For, as we mentioned earlier, he denied that there is a Substance of...
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Reply to Anand – capitalism, socialism, mysticism and materialism
Hi Anand, thank you for your interest. The causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union are obviously multiple and complex but they include the fact that the Soviet Union was the first socialist state...
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The motley play of the world and its dialectical relativity
‘In this motley play of the world, if we may so call the sum of existents, there is nowhere a firm footing to be found: everything bears an aspect of relativity, conditioned by and conditioning...
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Contra sacerdotes latentes
Originally posted 21.03.14 Emails sent to ABC Radio National – I did not receive a reply to either. To Alan Saunders, ‘The Philosopher’s Zone’ ABC Radio National, 03.09.09: ‘Knowledge or “god” ’ Hi...
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Contra sacerdotes latentes: Phillip Adams vs. ‘god’
Posted 30.03.14 Email sent to Phillip Adams 06.09.09 To Phillip Adams, host of Late Night Live, ABC Radio National, copied to John McDonald Hi Phillip, Would you be interested in delivering a very...
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Imagine
‘How is that Power present to the universe? …Conceive it as a power of an ever-fresh infinity, a principle unfailing, inexhaustible, at no point giving out, brimming over with its own vitality. If you...
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Nicholas of Cusa on the world
Who would not admire this Artisan, who with regard to the spheres, the stars, and the regions of the stars used such skill that there is – though without complete precision – both a harmony of all...
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NASA, ESA and a fine paragraph by William Franke
‘My own belief is that apophatic or negative theology holds in its keeping a key to the perennial vitality of philosophical reflection that does not simply define and then exhaust arbitrarily laid...
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The Letter of Lord Chandos
Hugo von Hofmannsthal The Letter of Lord Chandos This is the letter Philip, Lord Chandos, younger son of the Earl of Bath, wrote to Francis Bacon, later Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, apologising...
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The Neoplatonic ascetics Proclus and Nietzsche on eternal recurrence
‘Prop. 199. Every intra-mundane soul has in its proper life periods and cyclic reinstatements. For if it is measured by time and has a transitive activity (prop. 191), and movement is its distinctive...
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Hegel on the role of academic philosophers – priests at ‘a continual divine...
“This conceptual cognition of religion is by its nature not universal, but is rather only the cognition of a community. For that reason three stages take shape in regard to the kingdom of the Spirit:...
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