“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, September 17, 2011

Desperately Seeking Tillich

Where in Tillich does he talk about the difference between oukontic (absolute nothing) and meontic (nothing-ness)? Answers on a postcard to: trying to finish Realist Magic.

5 comments:

zareen said...

Hey, that's one I'd like to know, too. Please share.

Thomas Gokey said...

I'm traveling and away from my books so I'm just going by memory. Try his Systematic Theology v.1 in the section on being and finitude. I'm almost certain it's in vol. 1, less certain about where.

Ryan Brand-Neuroth said...

Yes--try p. 188 of systematic vol 1.

PS. I enjoy the blog very much.

Will Frei said...

Systematic Theology, I, pp. 186ff.

Ryan Brand-Neuroth said...

Yes--try p. 188 of Systematic vol. 1

PS. I enjoy the blog very much.