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)

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".