MARIUS ION Abstract In this essay I intend to tackle the lesser-known dimension of Cioran metaphysics, the sacred. Key concepts in his single work dedicated to seemingly eccentric issues Tears and Saints are: boredom and ecstasy, melancholy and music, despair and tears sprung from a broken heart to crying. Through his thoughts or lamentations, Cioran … [Read more…]
Andreea Gae Abstract Could the paradigm of the quantum physics instrument a metaphysical reconstruction of the natural world? What connections exist between actuality, potentiality and the contradictory complementarity? What are the uncertainty relations and how do they meet the Hegelian Concept or the Aristotelian energeia? How does the metaphysics retrieve the negativity of becoming and … [Read more…]
PATRÍCIA CALVÁRIO Abstract The corporeal experience of the divine in the corporeal vision of the deifying light (theourgon phos) is a main subject in the philosophical system of Palamas. He states that the experience of the divine culminates in the vision of light, following several ascetic practices like the psycho-physic method and the exercitation of … [Read more…]
Aleš Erjavec, Oana Șerban Abstract This interview is inspired the most important working-hypothesis presented in the volume Aesthetic Revolutions and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, edited by Aleš Erjavec, that questions the legitimacy of the distinction between aesthetic and artistic avant-gardes, supported by the relationship of each concept with the modern revolutionary politics. The … [Read more…]
Žarko Paić Abstract The author deals with the consideration of what he calls the post-metaphysical complex of the technosphere, for which the ontogenetic framework of classical metaphysics from Aristotle to Hegel is no longer valid. Instead, the question of the essence of man posits his transcendence in the emergence of Homo kybernetes, with which … [Read more…]
Laëtitia Simonetta Abstract In La Recherche de la vérité, Malebranche succeeds Descartes in entitling the affections of pleasure and pain to a practical role. However, he also speaks of instinct as “knowledge” and “proof”. This vocabulary is all the more surprising as it keeps opposing knowledge, based on ideas, to feeling, which only consists … [Read more…]