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Etica inevitabilului în filosofia lui Emil Cioran
The Ethics of the Inevitable in Emil Cioran’s Philosophy

Author(s): Liliana Pavel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: Cioran;ethics;inevitability;nihilism;existence;

Summary/Abstract: Can there be an ethic of the inevitable in dead-end visions, in traps, in voluntarily aroused utopias, in paradoxes? This is the big challenge. Does Emil Cioran find subterfuges, possibilities, statements to save the imminence? The inescapable Cioran stands firm on the edge of ethics through all the variations of position he adopts, through the constant vulnerabilities, the utopian approaches, the risky outbursts, the dark valences of the nihilism with which he constantly curls the ethical border.Understanding ethics on the foundations of the deconstruction of nihilistic imminence becomes impossible when the history of one's own existence loses its importance. Without a transfer of consciousness in a space of simultaneity with the basic landmarks of ethics, where the laws of the normal exist, we cannot build the anthropological aspects at the center of which Cioran's vision stands. Ethics begins to claim its rights when it observes that man, in our case Cioran, is beyond the transcendent and starts a demonstration of demonstrative rebellion at the end of which he would like to become the hero of his own existence, believing that the being can be saved by itself.

  • Issue Year: XXXV/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 65-75
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian