Factuality and the Beyond of God
This article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary, Meillassoux takes the notion of the irreducib...
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doaj-5c30f0bcf5be472b92da02919a4e83682020-11-25T01:16:35ZdeuBabes-Bolyai UniversityDiakrisis2601-72612601-74152019-05-012375310.24193/diakrisis.2019.3238Factuality and the Beyond of GodSandra Lehmann0Webster Vienna Private University/University of KasselThis article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary, Meillassoux takes the notion of the irreducible character of the absolute to its extreme and aporetic consequences. By contrast, I will outline an alternative account of the absolute. Like Meillassoux, I will suggest that the question of the absolute is intrinsically linked to the question of factuality. Yet, in this case, factuality leads to the notion of the beyond of God as the ground of being, inscribing into being the dynamic of a continuous inner transcendence. Keywords: factuality, transcendence, philosophy of existence, the absolute, Quentin Meillassoux, speculative materialismhttp://journals.orth.ro/index.php/diakrisis/article/view/238 |
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This article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary, Meillassoux takes the notion of the irreducible character of the absolute to its extreme and aporetic consequences. By contrast, I will outline an alternative account of the absolute. Like Meillassoux, I will suggest that the question of the absolute is intrinsically linked to the question of factuality. Yet, in this case, factuality leads to the notion of the beyond of God as the ground of being, inscribing into being the dynamic of a continuous inner transcendence.
Keywords: factuality, transcendence, philosophy of existence, the absolute, Quentin Meillassoux, speculative materialism |
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