Category Archives: Hegel

Medieval Philosophy, Barbarians and cultural change.

Posted on March 10, 2008 by

“It remains, then, a historical fact that “barbarian” peoples made themselves at home in a house they had not themselves built.  And this fact makes more comprehensible an otherwise troublesome discord which from the very beginning–especially at the beginning–characterized medieval … Continue reading →

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Von Balthasar on Soloviev: The meaning of Dostoevsky’s “beauty will save the world”

Posted on October 18, 2007 by

From the very beginning, Soloviev wanted to complete his theosophy with a universal aesthetics. He prefaced his essay on natural aesthetics with Dostoyevsky’s dictum that “beauty will save the world.” The Critique of Abstract Principles had proclaimed that ‘the realization … Continue reading →

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Hegel

Posted on April 21, 2007 by

“George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) opposed Rousseau’s and Kant’s separation of reason and morality from the lawfulness of nature and tried to reintegrate them into a whole. In Reason in History he argues that history or the totality of the … Continue reading →

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