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Research

Articles

“Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Mysticism Revisited: Justification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Plotinus” International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion, 100, 2026.

 

“From Will to Ultimate Reality: The Plotinian Influence in Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing in Itself,” Review of Metaphysics, 78, 2025.

 

“Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution for Democratic Despotism,” Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary, 209, 2024.

 

“Schopenhauer, voluntad para descifrar el enigma del mundo,” El Mirador, 11, 2010.

Book Reviews

David Bather Woods. Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Review of Metaphysics, 79, 2026: 881-883.

 

Bernardo Kastrup. Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics. Winchester, UK, iff Books, 2020. Idealistic Studies, 52, 2022: 291-296.

 

Laela Zwollo, St Augustine and Plotinus: The Human Mind as Image of the Divine. Leiden, Brill, 2018. Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter, 24, 2021: 201-203.

 

Nicholas Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2018. Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter, 22, 2019: 239-243.

Works in Progress

“Christianity and the Question of Greek Philosophy: The Septuagint, the Apologists, and the Universality of Truth,” Pro Ecclesia (Under Review).

 

“The Limits of Pure Apperception: Kant, Schopenhauer, and the Metaphysical Ground of Unity,” Journal of Transcendental Philosophy (Under Review)

 

“Could The Thing-in-Itself Think? Revisiting Schopenhauer’s Antinomy of the Cognitive Faculties,” (In Progress).

 

The Metaphysical Longing: Reason, Ideas, and Personal Immortality in Schopenhauer, (Monograph in Progress).

 

Schopenhauer’s Buddhism: A Historical-Philosophical Inquiry, (Book Review in Progress)

© 2026 by Juan C Rivera-Castro

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