List of Articles
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Metaphysics and Science
Umwelt, Welt, Weltanschauung, Überwelt
A summary of worlds, from the Umwelt (proper world) of the living to the Platonic semantic world, via the Weltanschauungen (world views) and the world (Welt) of science. The progression follows the disappearance of the notion of cause in science, and its inevitable distance from reality.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Diversity and unity of religions
A “transcendent unity of religions” is problematic, as Jean Borella has repeatedly denounced. This article sets out his arguments for an analogous unity of religions and his view of what a religio perennis cannot be.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Like a fly behind glass
The vision afforded by pure metaphysical discourse is like that of a fly behind glass. Starting from what metaphysics is not, this is the conclusion we reach.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Theology of Religions
The plurality of religions has posed a problem for Christianity and, since Nostra Ætate (Catholic Declaration of 1965), several discordant points of view have been developed. Here, we suggest a hierarchy of the axiomatics proposed by Guillaume de Vaulx d’Arcy, from the most fundamental metaphysics to the most pragmatic hic et nunc, in order to sketch out what might constitute a consensus.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Do you have to be Intelligent to be Saved?
To read the highly intellectual texts of S. Thomas Aquinas, for example, or presenting salvation through knowledge, whether they come directly from India (jñānayoga for example) or through the work of René Guénon (advaita vedānta), we can legitimately ask ourselves whether we need to be intelligent to be saved. Since the answer to this question was negative, it remained to be explained.
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Metaphysics and Theology
René Guénon, Esotericism and Christianity
In his Christ the Original Mystery, Esoterism and the Mystical Way (Angelico Press), Jean Borella sets out to show the limits of the Guénonian definition of esotericism and how it cannot be applied to Christianity, whose particular essence does not lend itself to it in the least.
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Metaphysics
Back to a Metaphysics of Beauty
“Art-con”, “con” for “contemporary” or “conceptual”, denounces itself by announcing itself as such. Here, we propose to retrace the journey from today’s official, financial and media-driven pseudo-art to an “original” art, untainted by the needs of schools, to a transcendent “beauty” recognized as such.
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Metaphysics
The Japanese Notion of “Aïda”
Morena Campani and Mieko Matsumoto’s film “A perdita d’occhio” reveals the notion of aïda, which is very particular to Japanese culture. Here’s how it can be understood.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
From Democracy to Diacracy
If we can easily denounce the current democratic illusion, it’s because modern democracies have explicitly rejected all democracy in favor of representative regimes. It’s no surprise, then, that the difficulties in which they are bogged down make democracies simply impossible. And yet, going back to the fundamentals of the past millennia (Hammurabi, Solon, Aristotle…), the possibility of democracy reappears. It simply needs to be renamed “diacracy”: power belongs to everyone, and “all that’s needed” is to share it in time and space, as an exclusively representative regime has no right to pre-empt it.
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Metaphysics and Science
The Limit of the Formula: “by Chance AND by Necessity”
If chance appears as an admission of ignorance, it’s because it contradicts a scientific approach that has always been formulated as “knowledge through causes”. This paradox, “by chance AND by necessity”, is a coordinating conjunction that sums up the effort of scientific knowledge to transform “chance” into necessity and, in this case, the renunciation of achieving this.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Jean Borella: An Approach and a Work
Introduction This presentation of Jean Borella’s work seems authorized by the fact that, in a “small” book entitled Symbolisme et Réalité, histoire d’une réflexion (“Symbolism and Reality, the story of a reflection”), 1997 (69 pages), he himself deemed it useful “to retrace the genesis of [his] reflection on sacred symbolism, […] in order to make […]
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Metaphysics
The Practice of Metaphysics is Religion
Beneath this provocative title lies a number of proposals aimed at refining the definition of metaphysics, particularly in relation to religion.