The invisible structure of reality. From the phenomenology of common givenness to the unspeakable metaphysics of the unsayable Cover Image

Invizibila structură a realului. De la fenomenologia datului cotidian la indicibila metafizică a nerostitului
The invisible structure of reality. From the phenomenology of common givenness to the unspeakable metaphysics of the unsayable

Author(s): Victor Eugen Gelan
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Ontology; metaphysics; structure of reality; ontological model; phenomenology; “common givenness”; Mihai Şora.

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I aim to show that the philosophy of Mihai Şora can both be seen as a phenomenological treatment of being and as a general theory of being in its most rigorous sense. At least, this philosophy could be designated as a phenomenological ontology which opens up itself towards an originally metaphysical perspective based on a specific type of knowledge of the sort of “global disclosure”. I will argue too that within Şora's philosophy one can have a twofold approach: one starts from what we could call the phenomenology of the “common givenness” (“ordi-nary/quotidian givenness”) and then proceeds (in a phenomenological manner) to a general theory of being, which is represented in Şora's philosophy by the constitution of the model of the “sphere with the null ray”; the second commences with the treatment of the ontological model as such (the model, which is already formed, represents in the end the symbolic structure of reality), that is, from this “general theory of being” (or of the constitution of being) and then advances step by step towards various (pheno-menological) applications of this ontological model to the multifaceted spheres of the domain of being (the sphere of language, of temporality, of ethics, of the social, of politics, etc.).

  • Issue Year: X/2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 90-104
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian