REPLIES: THINKING THE ABSOLUTE WITH THE PADUA HEGELIANS

In Replies: Thinking the Absolute with the Padua Hegelians, I respond to the commentaries and the critical readings of Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics by Michela Bordignon, Marco Bonutto, and Elena Tripaldi. While Hegel's philosophy does advance a form of speculative dialetheism, the rational form of Absolute Dialetheism developed in Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics is not sufficient to fully develop a plausible Hegelian concept of truth. Hegel’s self-particularizing concept calls for something even more robust: a Trans-Consistent Theory of Truth in which only contradictions can be true. By unifying rational and mystical forms of knowing into one concept of philosophical religion, speculative thinking can explain why there must be non-explainable contingent beings.