Footnotes2Plato

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

Category: Hegel

  • Jonael Schickler, Christology, and Rudolf Steiner

    So the book arrived today: Schickler’s dissertation, “Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner.” The author’s argument is as optimistic and uplifting as his own fate is tragic. Just days after finishing the manuscript, Schickler was killed in the Potters Bar rail accident in 2002 near Hertfordshire in…

  • The Role of Imagination in Speculative Philosophy

    The Role of Imagination in Speculative Philosophy “[Imagination] is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.” –William Wordsworth, ‘The Prelude’ Introduction It should go without saying that there is more to reality than what at first meets the eye. There is always a…

  • Our Planetary Moment: A Journey Through Cosmic Time

    Setting the Stage There were no eyes to see it happen, and even if there were, there was not yet any light for them to see, nor even any space in which to look. The universe was born out of an infinitely creative quantum womb poised somewhere (or is it nowhere?) between being and non-being.…