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Problema transcendenței în viziunea realismului critic al lui Dumitru Isac
The issue of transcendence from the perspective of the critical realism of Dumitru Isac

Author(s): Ionuţ Isac
Subject(s): History of Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: transcendence; metaphysics; critical realism; ontology; gnoseology; phenomenology; Dumitru Isac

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at analysing the issue of transcendence from the perspective of the critical realism of Dumitru Isac. The research of the results obtained by the systematic philosophy („metaphysics”) along the historical eras has constituted the constant preoccupation of the young writings of Dumitru Isac (1914–1984). Starting with his notes in The Journal of Ideas and the articles published during the period 1936–1945, these culminate with the work Knowledge and Transcendence (1943). The last work published by D. Isac on this theme, inspired by the philosophical conception of Mircea Florian, bears the title of Critical realism – Philosophical synthesis (1946). Author’s convictions are situated at the crossroads of the gnoseological idealism (transcendentalism) with the metaphysical (ontological) realism – synthesis appreciated as desirable and achievable by the future metaphysics. Our study represents a continuation of the interpretation of D. Isac main works from the perspective of the non-symbolic phenomenology, which uncovers their spiritual consonance with the transcendental phenomenology and the fundamental ontology.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2017
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 47-62
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romany