Meontology
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Recent papers in Meontology
A review of: David Chai, Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019, 216 pages.
Published in Dao, June 2019, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp 291–294.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019, 216 pages.
Published in Dao, June 2019, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp 291–294.
Problema categoriilor estetice, asupra căreia ne oprim în această lucrare, deși apare în istoria filosofiei universale încă de la Platon, nu a fost decât arareori luată în considerare cu atenția de care s-a bucurat, în câmpul logicii,... more
This paper utilizes Elliot R. Wolfson's analysis of Menahem Mendel Schneerson's thought in order to explicate the conceptualization of melody in Habad thought. Specifically its relation to the meontological Infinite, time-consciousness,... more
Volumul de față propune o viziune de ansamblu asupra uneia dintre cele mai incitante teme ale esteticii filosofice contemporane, anume problema „atitudinii estetice”, prin compararea gândirii despre artă prezentă în două sisteme... more
The Perception of Beauty in Plotinus. The Foreshadowing of a Meontological Way for the Constitution of Aesthetics. In this essay I tackle the problem of perception in the context of the plotinian philosophy, with an emphasis on the "... more
In this essay I contend that the differences between the newly discovered original version and the published version of Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" lie in how they understand the Nothing (das Nichts). Whereas the published version... more
Two major twentieth century philosophers, of East and West, for whom the nothing is a significant concept are Nishida Kitarō and Martin Heidegger. Nishida’s basic concept is the absolute nothing (zettai mu) upon which the being of all is... more
El texto que nos ocupa consta de las secciones IX, X y XI del libro De la filosofía de José Gaos escrito en 1959, que al año siguiente dictó en un curso de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. La negación, es considerado por... more
This work explore the possible connection between Schelling´s books Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom,The ages of the World and Philosophy of Art. Among these books a new conception about the Being (Sein) is... more
Dintre toate problemele filosofiei, cea a nimicului este probabil printre cele mai fascinante. Ea însoţeşte întreaga istorie a fiinţei de la Anaximandru la Heidegger însă doar rareori este vizată ca atare de către gânditori şi, când este... more
This study aims at interpreting the concept of παρυπόστασις, as it is presented in Proclus's work De malorum subsistentia from a meontological point of view. Although this concept-central to the understanding of the various conceptions... more
This essay aims at revealing the meontological foundations of late neoplatonic thinking in the ineffable, yet unsurpassable, difference between the first principle and the ontological and ontic domains it originates from. This line of... more
Presentation on the Kyoto School, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston
In his Laozi Commentary (老子注) and Structure of the Laozi's Subtle Pointers (老子微指例略), Wang Bi seems to identify the Dao with "absence" or "nothingness" (wu). Despite this identification, some modern commentators regard Wang Bi's Dao as a... more
Although Matila Ghyka is one of the Romanian philosophers who changed the way some of the most important artists and art theorists of the twentieth century practice art and think about aesthetics, his works remain almost unknown to the... more
In this study I tackle the problem of the systematic character of Aristotle’s table of categories and their existential origin. My aim is to show that the ten categories can be reduced “morphologically” to a unitary existential aporetic... more
Résumé: Nous nous proposons, dans cet article, de saisir la corrélation entre certaines formes d’épochè et les réductions auxquelles elles ouvrent, ce qui correspond, tour à tour, à un type de concrétudes plus riches. Notre approche de la... more
This paper inspects one piece of “Egyptian treasure” in Fr. Sergei Bulgakov’s storehouse—Plotinus’s initially puzzling doctrine of intelligible matter—in order to clarify the triform taxonomy of “nothing” he limns in his early Unfading... more
David Chai’s latest work delves into nothingness and becomes a groundbreaking rethinking of Zhuangzi’s worldview. In Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness, Chai carefully explicates the metaphysics and cosmology underlying the... more
In this study I propose an interpretation of the role the concept of κάθαρσις plays in Aristotle's philosophy as a whole and a sense in which we could talk about a "purging" of emotions through aesthetical experience in the field of fine... more
This article explores the significance of creatio ex nihilo (“creation from nothing”) in dialogue with Stanislas Breton’s méontology. With specific interest in how the classic theological affirmation of divine “omnipotence” must be... more
Wang Bi's Laozi weizhi lüeli (老子微指例略) is, along with Wang Bi's famous commentary on the Laozi/Daodejing, an attempt to unpack the Laozi's meaning. This is a translation of the first part (A1) of the Laozi weizhi lüeli, based on Rudolf G.... more
There has been no challenge to ‘the tradition of philosophy’ in contemporaneity: philosophy has since evolved past the criticisms of the twentieth century. Indeed, contemporary philosophy is such a diverse pursuit that it is impossible to... more
Résumé: Cette étude tente de définir la conception du mal dans la pensée patristique orientale et dans la théologie ascétique byzantine en rapport avec la nouvelle vision ontologique élaborée par les auteurs byzantins. Les auteurs... more
Article à paraître dans la revue "Recherches Philosophiques"
Lecture at St. John's College (Santa Fe). Audio recording available here: http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/3956
In this essay I aim to analyse the main components of the interrogative act and to reduce them to their existential meanings by ways of hermeneutical de-constitution. Thus, I link the interrogative act to its affective and emotional... more
I decided to write this study after I have read Rorty's quirky interpretation of Sartre's philosophy scattered in the Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Its deficiencies had been pointed out by Vladimír Ješko´s article polemically... more
Two major twentieth century philosophers, of East and West, for whom the nothing is a significant concept are Nishida Kitarō and Martin Heidegger. Nishida’s basic concept is the absolute nothing (zettai mu) upon which the being of all is... more
Deși idealul conștiinței filosofice este constituit de lipsa oricărui tip de prejudecată, există o seamă de tabuuri care marchează întreaga istoriei a filosofiei. Unul dintre ele este cel al cercetării sistematice și riguroase a... more
A talk on Augustine of Hippo's idea of 'nothing' (nihil).
In this study I analyse Adorno’s critique to jazz music form a meontological perspective. To understand why the German philosopher found jazz to be a form of pseudo-artistic expression, a simple commodity produced by a music industry that... more