NOICA – „PE CULMEA UNDE A AJUNS FAUST, STĂ DRACUL”
NOICA – "ON THE PEAK THAT FAUST REACHED, AWAITS THE DEVIL"

Summary/Abstract: As Noica said, it may be that Devil and dualism go together. And if the intellect is opposed to or at least stays near reason, then is the intellect in itself devilish. Says the philosopher: the devil is number two. The antinomies of the intellect, its paradoxes, its dead ends, are devilish. The intellect (as opposed to reason) is thus devilish. Number two is unstable: it necessarily requires a ”third”. The function of the Devil is to freeze things in dualism, to end the count to number two. This is why everything that is dualis devilish. Devil is the expression of the unmoved, frozen world. Yes, but the inner condition of thinking itself is the division, thinking works in base two. Does it mean that thinking itself is devilish? As I understand from Noica , devil does never say simply ”no”. And this is not only a matter of logic, it is mostly a matter of ontology: it is not about negation in itself, it is about the nature of the Devil. These problems are the topic of the following paper, with references to Faust, Job and Noica.

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