Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Absolute

  • Thinking and Speaking about the Absolute: Three Views

    Univocity.  There is an absolute reality.  We can speak of it literally and sometimes truly using predicates of ordinary language that retain in their metaphysical use the very same sense they have in their mundane use.  For example, we can say of Socrates that he exists, and using 'exists' in the very same sense we…

  • The Task of Philosophy: To Conceptualize the Absolute

    Wolfgang Cramer, Gottesbeweise und Ihre Kritik, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 1967, p. 19: So lange noch gewusst wird, was Philosophie ist, solange Philosophie noch ist, wird sie die Aufgabe, einen gesicherten Begriff vom Absoluten zu entwickeln, nicht zur Ruhe kommen lassen. The task of developing a secure concept of the Absolute will never come…