List of Articles
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
The current difficulties of these Western democracies (disavowal of politics, abstention, riots on unjustified pretexts), because they have expressly opted for exclusively representative regimes opposed to the original idea of democracy as power-sharing, could be mitigated by a better understanding of the definitions of the terms of what were once its principles, before they were reduced to a simple motto: liberty, equality, fraternity.
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Metaphysics and Science
Synchronicity, an illusion?
If synchronicity proves a contrario to be illusory according to statistical science, the hypothesis of an unus mundus appears consistent with the notion of the universe’s unique wave function in quantum physics. It remains to distinguish between interpretation and over-interpretation, especially in the light of metaphysics.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Jean Borella, Enlightenment of mystical theology
Jean Borella’s Lumières de la théologie mystique (“Enlightenment of Mystical Theology”) brings together the best indications for understanding theology as an initiatory and spiritual path, rather than as mere speculation and intellectual exercise. The section presented follows the teachings of St. Denys the Areopagite.
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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.