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Ce se întâmplă după revoluție?
What happens after revolution?

Author(s): Marius Florea
Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Published by: SACRI – Societatea Academica de Cercetare a Religiilor si Ideologiilor
Keywords: nihilism; revolt; anarchism; revolution movement; existential time; utopia;

Summary/Abstract: The term of “revolution” has its origins in astronomy and describes a circular movement which ends in the same spot from which it started. If we understand the concept of revolution as the end of a cycle, and proposed by Berdiaev, from the cosmic time to the historical time, and then to the existential one, we can discover what actually happens after a revolution and what we are left with from it. The historical perception of temporality limits ourselves in seeing only the immediate failure of the revolution, but in the existential plane, it affirms some rights and ideas which compose human dignity, which as Camus suggests, can only be kept through revolt. The apparition of ideas in the historical plane through revolution care be easily imagined if the gravitation has as a central point the utopia, an ideal space outside of history. The true purpose of revolution is to create a loop in time which takes us to a different plane of existence, through an Aufheben that moves history on the vertical axis of the spiral model that Hegel proposes. Revolution, because it is an eternal return, obtains in this way the consummation of the same nihilism which it gives birth to.

  • Issue Year: 3/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 21-41
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian