Ion Petrovici: despre necesitatea metafizicii sau cât de aproape suntem de adevăr?
Ion Petrovici: On the need for metaphysics, or how close are we to the truth?

Summary/Abstract: In a conference held at Sorbonne on March 25, 1936, “La connais­sance humaine et le transcendent” (Human knowledge and the transcendent), Ion Petrovici discussed the following problem which he traced through the history of philosophy to the present day: Is thought capable of perceiving reality itself? He distinguished between the gnoseological and ontological aspects of the problem. The first one is related to the nature and capacity of human functions (sensation, perception, in­tellect, reason) to intuit and render reality in knowledge. The second one belongs to the very struc­ture of reality, of the object of knowledge. Fundamental catego­ries of Kant’s philosophy, such as exist­ence, causality, and substance are brought into discussion.Provocative, but often puzzling, is that, from whatever field we start, we quickly reach a result that has an almost apodictic meaning: thinking always aims beyond itself.

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