Hegel’s Romance of Reason
The spirit helps me, suddenly I see counsel And confidently write: In the beginning was the Deed! —Goethe, Faust The Phenomenology of Spirit is the great philosophic…
Philosophy and Philosophy
In recent months, I’ve been reading books that — if I weave them together — bestow overviews of two major branches of philosophy: Analytic Philosophy and Continental…
Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy
Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy. Wayne Cristaudo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. In Idolizing the Idea, Cristaudo explores the value that philosophy…
Marx’ World View – Conjectures and Aberrations. A Critical Assessment
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was not a philosopher in the Socratic sense of the European tradition of Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Kant and Hegel. While…
Hegel’s Philosophy – Insights and Illusions. Bold Attempt of a Critical Assessment at the Occasion of Hegel’s 250th Birthday
Along with Marx, Hegel was the main opponent of some of the most influential traditions of philosophy in 20th century. Most of the philosophers of these traditions,…
The Moral Prerogatives of the State in German History
Upon the creation of a unified Germany in 1871, an intense debate began that would continue to this very day. What would the exact nature of the…
Grant, Time, and Eternity
Introduction Over the course of his prodigious career, George Grant, on a number of occasions, undertook to rethink both himself and his relationship to philosophy and theology.…
The Beyond and Its Parousia
As the title for today's lecture in the context of “The Meaning of History," I have chosen “The Beyond and Its Parousia." You know, of course, where…
Piero Coda’s Theology of History
The Trinity and Love Perhaps Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most powerful single response to the Bolshevik coup d’état and consequent ideological revolution in Russia was his novel, In the…
Voegelin and the Troubled Greatness of Hegel
It would challenge credulity to claim that, contrary to appearances, Voegelin's relationship with G.W.F. Hegel is positive. The tone Voegelin adopts toward modern thinkers in general, and…
Eric Voegelin and Continental Philosophy: Diagnosing Modernity
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. I…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part I)
Plato directly and indirectly cautions his students that he does not communicate with them straightforwardly. To repeat the warnings quoted previously, Plato fiercely denies in his Seventh…