List of Articles
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Providence and Destiny
This exercise was designed to answer a real person’s questions about his or her professional and emotional life. At the very least, it provides a precise clarification of the notions of destiny and providence.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics, the Language of Silence
The nature of knowledge is different between dianoia, noèsis and gnosis. But if it goes from words to silence, that silence is fuller than all words.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Metaphysica Sine Theologia Nihil
While the metaphysical approach is universal and inherent to all theology, metaphysics, as such, cannot be. This paper clarifies the links between metaphysics and theology, calling into question a Schuonian metaphysica perennis and the Guénonian identity of being and knowing in the human condition.
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Metaphysics and metapolitics
Metaphysics of Ecology
After a brief overview of what ecology, metaphysics and a brief history of sustainable development are, the corresponding ethics are reviewed before a theology and, above all, a metaphysics of ecology is proposed.
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Metaphysics and Theology
Jean Borella, on the Analogical Unity of Religions
A “transcendent unity of religions” is problematic, and Jean Borella has repeatedly denounced it (“Intelligence spirituelle et surnaturel”, in Éric Vatré, La Droite du Père, Enquête sur la Tradition catholique aujourd’hui, Trédaniel, 1994 ; “Problématique de l’unité des religions”, afterword to Bruno Bérard, Introduction à une métaphysique des mystères chrétiens, L’Harmattan, 2005; “La religio perennis n’est pas une religion” in René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, héritages et controverses, L’Harmattan, 2023). This article presents Jean Borella’s arguments in favor of an analogical unity of religions.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Merit: An Illusion?
The notion of merit has clearly evolved over time, and today’s sporting competitions provide an example of how this notion has been misused. This etymological, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, theological and spiritual investigation provides a timely challenge, especially at a time of meritocratic ideology
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Metaphysics and History
An Independent Priest in the 19th Century: Father Lacuria (1806-1890)
Presentation of Lacuria’s life and thought from an esoteric-political angle as found in the subject matter of Politica Hermetica, or the Italian Corriere Metapolitico. This angle of view includes the dimensions of Lacuria’s conception of his priesthood, his theological thinking as well as his politico-social thinking.
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Metaphysics and Science
Philosophy and Science, Epistemic Opening and Closing of the Concept
If there is a fundamental difference between science and philosophy, it lies in the legitimate – and constitutive – reduction of the concept to a calculable logical reason in science, whereas what characterizes philosophy is the epistemic openness of the concept. Philosophy is discovered by distinguishing intelligence from reason, which has always been the case, except for those who were enamored of Kantianism and overly attached to the illusory comfort of a narrow rationalism.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics as Anti-Dogmatism and as a Non-System
Metaphysics is not only a science, it is also a way. As a science, it appears extralinguistic insofar as it leads beyond the conceptual. The conceptual, in fact, turns out to be the simple step toward the knowable. Therefore, metaphysics can never be reduced to a system. By going beyond itself, this science becomes nescience; it is therefore anti-dogmatic by its very nature. As a way, metaphysics confirms this: it is the term of objective illusion for intelligences that know how to close their eyes (St. Dionysius Areopagitus). The mind seeks only what it has already found (Pascal, Chrétien de Troyes).
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Metaphysics and History
Rossellini, the Other Cinema
Once you’ve had a chance to see a film by director Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977), you discover that cinema is the art of showing without showing, an art without strings, without gimmicks, without special effects. The film shows what the act of filming is all about – it’s a lesson in cinema!
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Metaphysics
Paradoxes of Reason, Paradoxes of Intelligence
The three types of paradoxes – paracosmia, paralogy and paradoxia – are powerful teachings for the distinct faculties of reason and intelligence. We might even call them “metaphysical operators”.
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Metaphysics
Reason and Intelligence, the Two Sides of the Mind
Understanding the distinction between reason and intelligence enables human beings to break free from their mental confinement within conceptual games. A certain distance enables us to distinguish within reason itself the different regimes according to which it operates and, above all, to realize that the intelligible transcends the conceivable for the betterment of human thought.