Despre ierarhia valorilor în „Doctrina substanţei”
On the Hierarchy of Values in the “Doctrine of Substance”

Summary/Abstract: The problem of substance is the most difficult issue raised by the theme of the concrete, because substance is both nous and history, and freedom and necessity. Since it cannot be given itself, it remains for the substance the ability to be possessed by mediation, and we find these in meanings. The number of meanings of an object is indefinite, and this indefiniteness requires a selection of meanings and the realization of a hierarchy in what becomes the hierarchy of values. The issue raised by substantialism is not a new one: what are the criteria according to which we operate the hierarchy of meanings / values? The criterion is that of the structure of concrete. We cannot think concretely if we do not make an in-depth adjustment to what the constitutive structure of the concrete means. Absolute presence is a given, an objectification, and the meanings of the given are all concrete and of different values. All these structures essential to the concrete and unified by substance will form the substantial structures. They are polarized on the devolving axis and bears polarization due to the polarization of the substance itself towards the pole of nous. This is more substantiated than the pole of necessary reality. The devolving axis transmits to the substance the character of bidimensionality, and its resultant is the necessity-nous function. On this resultant, the substance behaves differently. As long as it is the pole of the necessary reality, the substance realizes the concrete structure, the presence, and on the nousic dimension, seen as a knowing pole, its nousic (noocratic) value is realized. There are degrees of reality in relation to the need-nous axis and they can be best detected in the categories of the substance. The imperative of fullness (or of organicity) tells us that there are no privileged areas of the real, that historical reality must be seen in its fullness. We are interested in the fact that, being all the values of the substantial body, their interactive hierarchy is given by organicity. Letţs see how!

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