Religion in Philosophy and Theology

Impossible Time

Past and Future in the Philosophy of Religion

Edited by Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen and Philipp Stoellger

What is, then, time? How is the future formed by the past, and the past recurring within the future? How could time question the concept of God? How to reflect upon the impossible, yet unavoidable concept of time? The authors of this volume discuss the question of time and its paradoxes, not the least with the purpose of giving time, as a recurring topic for the philosophy of religion.   (learn more...)

Hegel

BURKHARD NONNENMACHER Hegels Philosophie des Absoluten

Eine Untersuchung zu Hegels "Wissenschaft der Logik" und reifem System

[Hegel’s Philosophy of the Absolute. A Study of Hegel’s "Science of Logic" and the Mature System]

In the "Doctrine of Being", Hegel demonstrates that the infinite cannot be abstractly opposed to the finite, but has to contain the finite if it is not to be just a finite itself. Burkhard Nonnenmacher shows how Hegel therefore attempts to develop a model in which neither the absolute is abstractly opposed to the finite nor identified with it in a trivial manner.   (learn more...)

 

Collegium Metaphysicum (CM)

Gottesbeweise als Herausforderung für die moderne Vernunft

Student Edition

[Proofs for the Existence of God as a Challenge to Modern Reason]

The authors of this volume examine, each in their own way, the traditional and the contemporary proofs for the existence of God with the objective of gaining a new understanding of reason and religion in their relationship.   (learn more...)

Epiktet

Was ist wahre Freiheit?

Diatribe IV 1

Eingeleitet, übersetzt und mit interpretierenden Essays versehen von Samuel Vollenweider, Manuel Baumbach, Eva Ebel, Maximilian Forschner und Thomas Schmeller

[What is true freedom? Diatribe IV 1]

Diatribe IV 1 peri eleutherias is one of the most compact (and at the same time one of the longest) of Epictetus’ discourses (around 100 AD) which was handed down to us by the historian Arrian. This quintessential text not only combines many pivotal subjects taught by the Stoic but also demonstrates his remarkable art of persuasiveness. In addition to a detailed introduction, the text, the translation and a running commentary, the volume contains a series of essays which are based on passages in the text.   (learn more...)