De la persoana a treia la persoana întâi: câteva răspunsuri la întrebarea despre rosturile filosofiei lui Vasile Tonoiu
From the Third Person to the First Person: Some Answers to the Question about the Meanings of Vasile Tonoiu’s Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The philosopher doesn’t talk at all about the third person and the first person, nor about a possible transition from the first to the second; but, in spite of this silence, it is precisely the ineffable that acquires a certain colour and urges the reflection of the reader of his works to move from the question of the identity of the two persons, itself radical but obscure, given the origin and history of the word “person”, to the mystery of their unity. It is true that, late in his work, the philosopher speaks of the unity of the two, in a thoroughly hermeneutic manner, following in the footsteps of philosophers, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists and neuroscientists, moving from the “grasp” of reality by the “I” towards the “grasping” of the self, which claims the return to the self, i.e. a reflexive, experiential way of understanding things (things themselves, in phenomenological language). In such contexts, the philosopher, working rather hermeneutically, confronts theories from those fields of knowledge, introducing into the discussion terms specific to them, while remaining within the horizon of the use of words that can account for the things themselves, i.e. for them and for the one who de-conditions them as “objects” of the third person exercise and re-conditions them, at the same time, as facts of his/her own (first person) experiences.

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