How to understand Meillassoux’s solution to the spectral dilemma
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2012.vi28.13869Keywords:
spectral dilemma, correlationism, absolute contingency, factuality, MeillassouxAbstract
The present article takes place in the context of the alternative offered by Quentin Meillassoux to the question of the canonical question — why is there something and not rather nothing? (2018f)— and aims to reflect on the conditions that make the solution of the spectral dilemma possible (2016b) within the framework of an extra-scientific ontology (2020). To conceive of the advent of a divine entity would imply understanding at least three key concepts for the philosopher's thought, namely, correlationism, factuality and absolute contingency. Thus, the main objective of this article is to outline an introductory reading of the fundamentals of Meillassoux’s philosophy in order to understand it as an ontology capable of accounting for divine non-existence.
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