Hegel's Aufhebung and Lonergan's Sublation

What is it about?

This discussion of Aufhebung and sublation explores different approaches to understanding the nature and integrity of determinate events, their relation with diversely conceived contending principles and the clarifying light afforded by the horizon of either Absolute Spirit or absolute transcendence.

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Why is it important?

By comparing and contrasting the approaches adopted by Hegel and Lonergan, we develop a vantage on some of the broader questions confronting western cultures. How might we possibly affirm complete intelligibility in the face of contingency, randomness and surds? How could we locate human freedom and autonomy within world process? How might we understand meaning that is ‘surplus’ to its mode of communication? How might we understand and assess the distinction between world process as the expression of Absolute Spirit and world process as participation in absolute transcendence?

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