TEMPORALITATEA TRĂIRII ESTETICE ÎN VIZIUNEA LUI LUCIAN BLAGA
The temporality of aesthetical living in Lucian Blagaʼs view

Summary/Abstract: Lucian Blaga identifies the ontological dualism as the starting point for the analysis of aesthetical structures and values. Based on the theory of the dual nature of the conscience, which distinguishes between two specific modes of human existence, namely the existence within the real (material) world and the existence within the horizon of mystery, the present paper argues that the aesthetic experience is linked to a type of temporality whose character is not subject to the physical laws of time due to the fact that it abolishes the perspective of common temporal experience of succession. Even though the Romanian philosopher does not state it directly, this thought takes shape throughout his work Art and value, emphasizing the magnitude of the aesthetic experience that is involved by the human conscience in relation to the work of art. Blaga understands art as both enhancing and revealing the mystery within the horizon of which human beings exist. At the moment of the aesthetic experience its subject shifts from the material world to the horizon of mystery, his specific and fundamental ontological mode that alows him to become what he is – fully human.

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