O TEMĂ MAJORĂ A GÂNDIRII FILOSOFICE OCCIDENTALE: ELEMENTELE OPUSE ALE REALITĂŢII ŞI UNITATEA ACESTORA
A Mainstream Issue of Western Philosophical Thought: the Opposite Elements of Reality and Their Unity
Author(s): Claudiu BaciuSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Renaissance Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Opposites; Unity; Coincidentia Oppositorum; Western Metaphysics; Christianity;
Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the efforts of the Western philosophers to find the hidden unity lying behind the world of the opposites. It starts by discussing the Pre-Socratic concept of an original matter. Here such unity was only posited and not yet fully understood. Next, the article addresses the more specific views of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, who endeavored to explain the persistence of the real forms within the decaying world. Finally, it presents the way in which Christianity elaborated a new concept of the divine Creator that marked both the Western medieval tradition and the European modernity radically.
Journal: Revista de filosofie
- Issue Year: LXVI/2019
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 467-475
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Romanian, Moldavian
