TO BE AN UPHOLDR OF THINKING

• Authors: Gadacz Tadeusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

'Kwintet metafizyczny' (Metaphysical Quintet) includes five essays in which professor Barbara Skarga, the eminent researcher of modern and contemporary philosophy, and philosopher herself, confesses her philosophical credo. The leitmotif of the book is the key concept of the 'origin' in classical Western philosophy, and its main subject - metaphysicality and metaphysical thinking. By reflecting upon the origin and primordiality of thinking, upon the origin of time, evil, experience and metaphysicality itself, by discussing with witnesses of the deepest and crucial metaphysical experiences: Plato, Plotinus, Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, B. Skarga shows her own way to the origin of thinking where metaphysicality is born. She discovers these origins not in the human finitude, as Heidegger, nor merely in infinity, as Levinas, but in the dialectic between finitude and infinity.

Keywords

EN

'ORIGIN'; METAPHYSICS; SKARGA BARBARA ('METAPHYSICAL QUINTET')

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2-3(20)
• Pages: 107-110
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gadacz Tadeusz

• Tadeusz Gadacz, Collegium Civitas w Warszawie, PKiN, pl. Defilad 1, XIIp., 00-901 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06798