DIFERENŢIALELE DIVINE ALE LUI LUCIAN BLAGA – UN MODEL METAFIZIC DE GENEZĂ A LUMII
Lucian Blaga’s Divine Differentials – A Metaphisic Model of the Origin of the World

Summary/Abstract: In Blaga’s Divine Differentials, the Great Anonymous (also called the „Generator”) is the absolute metaphysical principle or the „metaphysical center” of the world, an autarchic „integrated whole”, the utmost complexity, having the ability to generate „ad indefinitum” existences of the same substantial magnitude and structural complexity. „However, as a representative of the Absolute Existence, having infinite creation possibilities, without exhausting its creative substance and without” feeding on other substantial elements from the outside world, the Great Anonymous keeps the human individual at the periphery, and confronts him with a series of obstacles, within the strict limits of his humble human condition, thus obstructing his access beyond the walls of the transcendent. And to prevent the emergence of „equivalent Gods”, which would lead to a „serious divine anarchy”, the Great Anonymous refuses even to consider its own self lest it should reproduce itself by the mere act of self-determination; that is why it generates and emits from the Anonymous Fund only peripheral and „less nuclear” differentials, because in the philosopher’s view, the „divine differentials (we refer to heterogeneous ones) are essentially as many infinitesimal carriers of a virtual, ultimate simplicity”. Emitted in infinite and heterogeneous series (more rarely homogeneous), the divine differentials are „left to chance” so as to o integrate, according to the principle of the minimal or the sufficient correspondence, and form complex existences. Different from Leibniz's monads and Herbart's realms, they integrate into the so-called formative units; forming more or less complex structures, they disintegrate themselves after a while because all formative units are subjected to „transience” and are ephemeral. Just as the Divine Differentials, formative units make up the trans-biological fund, integrating into everything that exists (according to „correspondences”), but the„maximum level” of the integration process admitted by the Great Anonymous is the one reached by human consciousness, where are integrated the more „nuclear” differentials, but beyond them – any kind of evolution is blocked!

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