List of Articles
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
To Believe, to Know, to Cognize
While we will see that, contrary to popular belief, believing and knowing are not in opposition, moreover, we will realize that knowledge and cognizance can be in opposition. This opposition is even crucial to understand what metaphysics is and how intrinsic it is to every human being.
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Metaphysics and Science
Does Time Precede Space?
What is time? What is space? Questions for ever asked and that modern space-time theory has not extinguished. The purpose of this paper is to consider these questions scientifically, philosophically and metaphysically so that to answer the critical question: does time precedes space, which seems to be the case in Christianity.
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Metaphysics and Theology
The Christological Hologram or the Hologramic Christ
As the Gospel indicates: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40), this means that if Christ is the Neighbor par excellence. it is because any neighbor is Christ. As Jean Borella has put it « the neighbor is the matter of neighborhood, Christ is its eternal form“. Here came the notion of a hologramic Christ, present in totality in any human being. Hence, this open a path into the metaphysical mystery of the One and the multiplicity, at both ends of Becoming (Creation) and Resorption (Pleroma).
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Was René Descartes a Cartesian? Was Isaac Newton a Newtonian?
It is now academically well established that Cartesian dualism has unfairly been put onto Descartes after his time. This paper is an opportunity to restore some truth about him, while Cartesianism definitely may be a methodology in science but no metaphysical doctrine at all.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics, Science & Religion – An Introduction
This conference was meant to be a brief introduction to metaphysics to an audience of scholars from different disciplines. Three points of view are presented: the historical genesis of metaphysics, the relation between modern science and metaphysics, and what does ‘Christian metaphysics’ mean?
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Metaphysics
Logos-Centric Metaphysics
The simple definition of metaphysics leads to understand that metaphysics is Logos-centric by essential nature. Yet, isn’t the Holy Spirit who reveals the Son toward whom we can turn?
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Metaphysics and Science
Wolfgang Smith: Cosmology in the Face of Gnosis
Our world cannot be known else than through an anthropic realism, which denounces the contradiction of contemporary Weltanschauung. The enigma of “seeing the world” thus denounces the so-called Enlightenment as an obscurantism and the renewed cosmologia perennis appears to be in line with the Indian tribhuvana doctrine.
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Metaphysics and Science
Wolfgang Smith on Science and Epistemic Closure of the Concept
Wolfgang Smith’s paper exposes Jean Borella’s philosophical doctrine of “epistemic closure”, followed by a developed application to modern science, then to the related scientistic contradiction, and finally to contemporary quantum physics.
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Metaphysics and Science
Unmasking “AI”
A—perhaps non-accidental—failure to distinguish linguistically between reason (dianoia, ratio) and intelligence (noûs, intellectus) has given rise to the term “artificial intelligence” which consequently engenders misunderstanding if not indeed fear. In keeping with the original meaning of the words in question, the term “artificial intelligence” should de jure be denominated “artificial reason,” a correction which might help to resolve a great deal of confusion and perhaps even forestall disaster.
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Metaphysics and Philosophy
Chrono-Sophia – Thinking the End of Times
Thinking the end of times refers to several key questions like the type of time (cyclic or linear), the beginning of times, the announces of its end, and the eschatological destiny of individual man, the mankind and the world… that is probably some of the largest and deepest matters. The purpose of this brief paper, thus, only is to sketch what we believe are the key directions of a proper thinking of the end of times. This is written in most part after Jean Borella’s work (in particular, Marxisme et sens chrétien de l’histoire, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2016, pp. 225-285, for the first four paragraphs) and focuses and emphasizes some Christian original views on these matters.
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Metaphysics and Theology
The Two Step Cure
Having considered the two stages of the “extinction” of Sufism, initially exposed by René Guénon, we realize that they are eminently present in Christianity. Studying Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Taoism, we realize that these two times are equally present. It is an original resonance of these seven religions on this criterion of salvation in two stages.
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Metaphysics
Gnosis and the “possibilities of non-manifestation”
This paper tries to clarify the difficult metaphysical question of the relation between the ‘possible’ and the ‘reality’, thanks to Jean Borella’s work about Guénon, Schuon and St. Thomas Aquinas.