Category: Occasionalism
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Carl Schmitt on Political Romanticism as a Form of Occasionalism
Another in a Substack series.
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Occasionalism, Omnipotence, and Matthew 23:9
"Secondary causes are mere occasional causes, occasions of the exercise of the causality of the only true productive cause, God." And call no man your father upon earth, for One is your Father, who is in Heaven. (Matthew, 23:9) Posted by: Simon Neale | Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 03:21 PM Before we can evaluate Mr. Neale's…
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From the Mail Bag: Occasionalism
A reader e-mails: Great blog, thanks for writing it! Are you familiar with the writings of the Muslim philosopher Al-Ghazali and his idea now called "Occasionalism"? It seems to me that the person of faith must give up his/her faith in cause and effect for the supernatural to make sense, and Al-Ghazali seems to be…
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From the Mail Bag: Occasionalism
Todd Wright e-mails: Great blog, thanks for writing it! [. . .] 2. Are you familiar with the writings of the muslim philosopher Al-Ghazali and his idea now called "Occasionalism"? It seems to me that the person of faith must give up his/her faith in cause and effect for the supernatural to make sense, and…
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Carl Schmitt on Romanticism as a Form of Occasionalism
One of the theses advanced by Carl Schmitt in his Political Romanticism (MIT Press, 1986, tr. Guy Oakes; German original first appeared in 1919 as Politische Romantik, 2nd ed. 1925) is that romanticism is a form of occasionalism. As Schmitt puts it, “Romanticism is subjectified occasionalism.” (PR 17) In this set of notes I attempt…
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Hume: Occasionalism Without God?
I wonder if I can get any of my esteemed readers to swallow the following suggestion. Ten years or so ago it came into my head that Hume's analysis of causation in terms of (i) temporal precedence, (ii) spatiotemporal contiguity, and (iii) constant conjunction can be reasonably viewed as occasionalism without God.