The Counter-Action of the Divine or on the Possible in Schelling and Kierkegaard

Abstract

The current article aims at showing the terms in which the concept of possibility elaborated by Friedrich W. J. Schelling breaks with the metaphysical dualism between the immutable Act and pure potency by introducing into the absolute certain reflection, counter-action or subtraction from which emerges the infinite possibility of divine birth. Kierkegaard, on his part, will find in such possibility the origin of the singular existence and engine of her inexhaustible and contradictory becoming. Reflection, negativity, possibility and freedom are then the three main categories of a new concept of existence, which disrupts classical dualism to give birth to the divine.