The Absolutely Infinite (Spinoza), the Infinite (Schelling 1795-1796) and About the Absolute as Contemporary Logos

Abstract

The writing is divided into five points and its purpose is to explain the following. First: it shows that Spinoza’s philosophy contains an apparent contradiction in the relationship of his system with the idea postulated by God; the system is in God, but God is not reduced to a system. Second: That the system is in God and the way it is determined by an abstract antecedent-consequent; that is, a point of departure and a purpose understood as the fulfillment of the wise, the éskhatos of wisdom whose parousía is a divine intuition (télos). Third: Shows how Spinoza argues that the finite is in the infinite, due to the rejection of transient chance. Two senses of dogmatism are defined according to idealism. Fourth: Explains how for Spinoza and Schelling the system is in God and how God is not reduced to a system. It is argued that Schelling’s idealism is a dogmatism from the idea of absolute in Spinoza. Fifth: two theological aspects of the truth that have predominated in Western thought are denounced. When we detach our selves from them, we begin to clarify a special idea of the absolute as logos of our time.