Unity of existence in philosophical representations: Through noetic and perceptual faith Cover Image

Reprezentări filosofice ale unității existenței: prin credință noetică și credință perceptivă
Unity of existence in philosophical representations: Through noetic and perceptual faith

Author(s): Viorel Cernica
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Phenomenology
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: noetic belief; perceptual faith; representation (of real-world unity); transcendence; lived world; Petrovici; Merleau-Ponty;

Summary/Abstract: In the following paper, I suggest an interpretation of Petrovici’s and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, both of them structured in accordance with the concept of unity of existence (the world), itself given in a close relation with the idea about an ex­istential subject. Each philosophy includes a representation of the unity of existence, founded, the first, in a spiritual conviction (noetic belief), and the second, in a perceptu­al faith. This representation is in the same time a privileged kind by which a subject en­ters the world. Also, I will suggest arguments in order to legitimate the idea that each representation and its construction let themselves be led by the regulativity of a model of philosophizing: the philosophy of life (in the context of a metaphysics) – Petrovici; the existential philosophy (in a phenomenological context) – Merleau-Ponty.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2022
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 11-27
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian