Kingston Philosophy Café

At 20:00 Barrie Selwyn will discuss The Absolute at WLP. This event is held at the Adelaide.

The Absolute is a concept that can be traced back to Parmenides.  With a nod to Spinoza it re-emerges when the post Kantians attempt to resolve the chasm between thought and being arising from Kant’s concept of the noumenon - the enigmatic and unknowable thing in itself  At the same time the ‘Absolute’  appears  in English Poetry of this period.  This reciprocity between philosophy and literature has never been matched.