“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Day: June 1, 2010

  • My Notes on Jonael Schickler’s “Metaphysics as Christology”

    The following are my notes on Jonael Schickler’s Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner. Introduction Steiner’s esoteric metaphysics presents a potential resolution to the opposition between Kantian transcendentalism and Hegelian dialecticism (p. xix). Hegel’s logical dimension remains ontologically underdetermined as it fails to adequately respond to Kant’s…