From non-Divine Omnipotence.
Meillassoux’s Rational Claim to Overcome Fideism
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https://doi.org/10.14409/topicos.2023.45.e0050Keywords:
Meillassoux, Reason, Contingency, Fideism, AbsoluteAbstract
Quentin Meillassoux defends a position called “Speculative Materialism”, which claims to have reached –through a strictly rational procedure– something absolute. With this gesture, it asserts to go beyond Kantian criticism and fideism. This position is very different from traditional materialisms, but also from all kinds of metaphysical absolute, insofar as it denies the validity of the principle of sufficient reason and rejects the existence of a necessary entity. The only necessary thing, for Meillassoux, is the principle which states that everything is contingent, and the concomitant nonreason of every existing being. The author objects that it is possible to uphold on rational grounds that reality lacks intelligibility, and at the same time argues that it is possible to sustain the thesis of an ex nihilo emergence of life, thought, and even divinity, with the argument that the radical contingence of everything implies that everything is possible, except the contradictory .
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