Word: hegel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...
...motives, they make tender and tempestuous lovers. With scarcely a lapse of taste or skill. Author Koningsberger captures the many-splendored hues of fleshly delight. His lovers' neopaganism is sunny, not steamy. But the clouds soon gather. Toni, who is an egghead, likes to air his notions on Hegel, physics, films, money and 20th-century man. Catherine would rather listen to a record of Oh! Look at Me Now! five times...
...Hegel and Tillich
...other development found some of its earliest modern representatives in the German romantic philosophers, who sought to preserve the validity of various dogmas by taking them symbolically--seeing them as poetic anticipations of their own profound ontological discoveries. Thus Hegel explained the Trinity as a figurative approximation to his everlasting metaphysical waltz-step of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and Professor Tillich finds the doctrine of the Incarnation still viable because it expresses "the principle of the divine self-manifestation in the ground of being itself ... the dynamic spiritual word which mediates between the silent mystery of the abyss of being...
...result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Professor Tillich cites Hegel fourteen times, and Russell not once. If England's greatest living philosopher were aware of it at all, one suspects that he would regard this fact as a greater tribute than the Nobel Prize