Conatus - Journal of Philosophy

Approaches to the Monism of Proclus the Neoplatonist

In this study, the authors discuss two major topics in Proclus the Neoplatonist, which are interesting from a metaphysical and an epistemological point of view. Specifically, based on Proclus’ Commentary on Plato's Parmenides and Theology of Plato, they investigate first the metaphysical archetypal world and its projec...

Pantheism, Personalism, and Popular Sovereignty:

Abstract This article seeks to elucidate the politico-theological significance of Ludwig Feuerbach’s magnum opus, The Essence of Christianity (1841), by considering that work in relation to reviews published by Feuerbach in the 1830s of works written by two figures identified by him as representatives of “the Positive...

Functionalist Intuitions, Uncertainty, and Ontological Politics: Religious Studies for the Anthropocene

Following Hanegraaff’s (2020: 73) claim that pioneers in our field considered it “to be no less than essential for any adequate understanding of the history of human culture and society as such,” this text answers Schilbrack’s (2013) question: “After we deconstruct ‘religion’, then what?” The answer is formulated wit...

Two truths and one aporia: a Madhyamaka model of agency in dialogue with Western philosophy of action

Husserl and Twardowski: Two Paths for the Reform of Logic

This paper reconstructs, in a historical and critical perspective, the Brentanian project of a reform of logic and the bifurcation that emerges between Twardowski and Husserl. Against the widespread tendency to frame the Austro-Polish debates through the metaphysical opposition realism/idealism, it argues that the deci...

J. N. Findlay’s Rational Mysticism

The philosopher John Niemeyer Findlay (1903–1987) held that the insights of mystical experience can be philosophically analyzed and articulated in rational form. Findlay provided two routes to the “mystical pole of the cosmos.” In the first, he appealed to the related notions of impersonality and impartiality to transc...