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• Blaise Pascal

  French mathematician, physicist, religious thinker, and writer (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662). Author of the Pensées (posthumous; compositional fragments 1657–62), the Provincial Letters (1656–57), De l'esprit géométrique (c. 1657), works…

• Christian Love (Simmel's Reconstruction)

  Simmel's philosophical reconstruction of Christian love as a distinct trans-vital love-form, structurally opposed to universal-philanthropy: Christian love embraces the total person — sinner as sinner, "without that 'in spite of'" (Oakes p…

• Creation *ex nihilo* (Materialist, Nancy)

  Nancy's redeployment of the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo as a materialist doctrine. It does not mean that the world is produced out of some pre-existing nothing by a powerful artisan-God; rather, it means the world has no presu…

• Daß/Was Distinction

  Schelling's 1850 Quelle lecture distinguishes two "aspects" of what Kant had called the Ideal of Pure Reason: (A) the Ideal qua Reason — the "completely determinate concept [Inbegriff] of all possibilities," the Was ("whatness," totality o…

• Death of God

  The "death of God" is a load-bearing cross-tradition motif of the corpus — and a genealogical lineage, not a single doctrine. Its philological source is Hegel's speculative Good Friday (Phenomenology §785, "God himself is dead"), where the…

• Evil as Positive Reversal (Schelling)

  Schelling's distinctive theory of evil from the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): evil is not privation (Augustine, Leibniz) and not mere sensuality ("Monotheletism") but the positive reversal of the in…

• Franz Xaver von Baader

  Bavarian Catholic philosopher and theologian (1765–1841), the Munich collaborator and credited precursor of Schelling in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). Schelling explicitly credits Baader with th…

• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  German philosopher (1743–1819), the principal anti-rationalist opponent in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the initiator of the Pantheismusstreit (1785). Jacobi's claim that the only cons…

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  German Aufklärung dramatist, critic, and philosopher (1729–1781), three roles in Schelling's Philosophical Investigations (1809): (1) the staged Spinozist in Jacobi's 1785 On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn — Le…

• Ground / Existence Distinction (Schelling)

  Schelling's central original distinction, articulated in the "Deduction from the Philosophy of Nature" section of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): "being in so far as it exists" (Existenz) vs. "bei…

• Idole (anti-figuratif)

  Merleau-Ponty's polemical name for the figure without fond — the image-fetish that pretends to total self-presence and thereby blocks access to the figuratif-register of being. The idole is the epistemic equivalent of Descartes' idée clair…

• Jean-Louis Chrétien

  French Catholic phenomenologist and poet (1952–2019). Major figure of what Dominique Janicaud (in The Theological Turn of French Phenomenology, 1991) named the "theological turn" of French phenomenology — alongside Levinas, Michel Henry, J…

• Johann Gottfried Herder

  German philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and pioneering philosopher of history and language (1744–1803). Three roles in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom: (1) the author of God. Some Co…

• Onto-Theo-Logik (Onto-Theo-Logic)

  The onto-theo-logical constitution (onto-theo-logische Verfassung) names the inner structural form of all metaphysics: because Being shows itself as Grund (ground), metaphysics is simultaneously Onto-logik (grounding beings in general as S…

• Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith F. W. J. Schelling, 1809

  Author: F. W. J. Schelling · Year: 1809 (Love & Schmidt translation 2006, SUNY Press) · Type: Book (treatise plus appended Supplementary Texts)

• Positive Philosophy

  Schelling's late project (formally announced in the Berlin lectures of the 1840s, culminating in the 1850 Quelle) of going beyond what he calls Vernunftwissenschaft — merely rational science — by recognizing that thought is indebted to bei…

• Speculative Good Friday

  Hegel's name (from Glauben und Wissen, 1802; recapitulated in the Phenomenology Religion chapter at §§779–785) for the dialectical-speculative meaning of Christ's death: the death of the divine mediator is simultaneously the death of the a…

• The Hand of God

  The theologized organ that, on Derrida's reading in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (esp. §§7, 11), haunts the haptocentric tradition of touch. The figure runs from the biblical hand of God (Genesis, Exodus, the Psalms) through Aquinas's mutuus…

• Theodicy

  The philosophical project of justifying God's permission of evil in creation — coined by Leibniz in his 1710 Essais de théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. The Love & Schmidt editors' Introduction to t…

• Théologie explicative

  Saint Aubert's technical term — first in his 2008 Archives de philosophie article, then systematized in Être et chair II Ch VII § 3d — for the Leibnizian-Thomist theological position Merleau-Ponty targets across his late manuscripts. The t…

• Ungrund (Schelling / Boehme)

  The non-ground — Schelling's most distinctive move in the closing "All-Unity of Love" of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). The Ungrund is "the absolute considered merely in itself" prior to the dual…