Spirit and liberty. A double reference to Hegel and to Schelling in ClaudeBruaire's thoughts (Trinitarian speculations on Hegelian negativity and the Schellingian affirmative power of the absolute)
C. Lavaud, Spirit and liberty. A double reference to Hegel and to Schelling in ClaudeBruaire's thoughts (Trinitarian speculations on Hegelian negativity and the Schellingian affirmative power of the absolute), REV SCI PH, 85(1), 2001, pp. 107-118
Claude Bruaire has never ceased to dialogue with two major authors, Hegel a
nd Schelling. The synthesis is made around two main pairs of concepts, bein
g and spirit on the one hand, liberty and negativity on the other. The nega
tive thought of indeterminate and ineffable infinity must be made over into
a positive metaphysics. The latter suggests determinating being as spirit
which is liberty and liberty itself must be thought through a change of Heg
elian negativity into the affirmative power of Schellingian Absolute. Trini
tarian speculation then takes place in Bruaire's way of thinking as a "Chri
stian arousing" of philosophy, opening into a metaphysics of spirit as gift
, an "ontodology".