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

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.

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