Pietism developed in a number of different directions, especially in England and Germany. Among the representatives of the movement, two in particular should be noted. Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf (1700–60) founded the Pietist community…
Tag: hegelianism
Опять объ Гегеля
Среди обычныхъ возможныхъ цѣлей вопрошанія (я назову его здесь “философскимъ”) можно назвать освѣдомленіе и испытаніе. По контрасту, вопрошаніе, которое я назову герметическимъ, не подразумѣваетъ этихъ функцій: узнать ничего нельзя, можно развѣ только стать знающимъ; далѣе,…
Eric Voegelin on Phänomenologie des Geistes as a “masterpiece of rigorous magical speculation”
The nature of the order of being as it is given, together with man’s place in it, is obliterated: the being of world and ego is restricted to the knowledge of the immediate or existent;…
Eric Voegelin on Hegel as a gnostic
The result of such transitions — which are in fact leaps — is that the meanings of words are changed. The gnostic program that Hegel successfully carries out retains for itself the name “philosophy,” and…
Glenn Magee (& Eric Voegelin) on Joachim de Fiore
As [Eric] Voegelin sees it, Joachim [de Fiore]’s great innovations were to conceive of history as having an eidos, a formal structure, and to “immanentize the eschaton,” to hold that the end of time will…
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Glenn Magee on Hegel’s views on magic
On the surface, it appears that all Hegel has in mind by “magic,” and by the “magic” of magnetism, is simply psychological control. As we have seen, he speaks about magnetism being made possible by…
Glenn Magee on Hegel vs Aristotle
The difference between Hegel and Aristotle, however, is that the Unmoved Mover, which is perfectly independent and self-sufficient, is no “system” in the sense of a unity of parts, because it has no parts. Aristotle…
Glenn Magee on the philosopher as an automatic writer
Hegel believes that through the “purificatory initiation” of the Phenomenology, he has, in effect, put himself in an altered state of consciousness, beyond thhe distinction between subject and object, whereupon the dialectic of the Logic…
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Glenn Magee (& Alexandre Kojève) on Begierde
By introducing “Self-Consciousness,” Hegel introduced the term Desire (Begierde) to describe the primal urge for the cancellation of otherness and the individuation-absolutization of subject.* – Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 141-2 * Kojève…
Glenn Magee on Lull & Francis Bacon
Yates devoted a chapter in her The Art of Memory to Lull and attempts to locate him withing the tradition of ars memoria. However, she notes that Lull’s art is devoid of the dramatic images…