Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire
Review of Metaphysics, The › Vol. 61 Nbr. 2, December 2007
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The significance of this point is far-reaching: it founds a "negative anthropology," which, by preserving the incompleteness or finitude of the created spirit that can never be its own origin, avoids Hegel's collapse of orders and so clears the way for a positive ontology of gift, founded on the notion that the Absolute itself is pure gift to itself. If love, understood in a trinitarian fashion as absolute gift, founds the intrinsic consistency of logic, and if such a conception of the absolute reveals the ultimate ground for the relative autonomy of being-that is, created being as spirit, as a gift made to itself-then there is in principle no need to regard the data of revelation as a threat to the integrity of philosophy.
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Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire
LÓPEZ, Antonio. Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xiv + 262 pp. Cloth, $69.95-One of Claude Bruaire's primary philosophical projects was to recast Hegel's insights into the nature of Geist and thus to fructify them in the service of an "ontodology"-Bruaire's name for his origin...
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