Logocentryczna metafizyka Arystotelesa a Bergsona metafizyka pozytywna

• Authors: Urbańska-Bożek Maria

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The Logocentric Metaphysics of Aristotle and the Positive Metaphysics of Bergson

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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In this article I want to show similarities, analogies, and differences between the main categories constituting the fundamental principle on which the logocentric metaphysics of Aristotle and the positive metaphysics of Bergson were constructed. Both metaphysical theories, on the grounds of understanding of the reality and rudimentary principles, that govern this reality, do not show significant discrepancies. Both, in my opinion, try to bring to the fore these metaphysical categories, which represent paradigms for the same power, energy, principle of life, or just life manifesting itself in a movement, a becoming and a flow that operates rationally and consciously, that is to say, intentionally. This power infiltrates and connects beings to one another and, in this way, each one and all are related to each one. This power is Bergson’s élan vital - that within animals is manifested as instinct, whereas within people, it sublimates into intuition - and Aristotle’s individual nature of things (phisis), as the inner principle of movement and rest within the individual being. The main factors for the different interpretations and incomparability of these two theories are, as I suppose; language as a tool for description of reality and different hermeneutics of rationality that the two philosophers represent. The language used for the description of reality, at the level of metaphysics is a result of the aforementioned different hermeneutics.

Keywords

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Metaphysics; élan vital; nature of things; Bergson; Aristotle

• Publisher: Parafia Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Gdańsku z siedzibą w Sopocie
• Journal: Gdański Rocznik Ewangelicki
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 280-294

Contributors

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Urbańska-Bożek Maria

• pracownik naukowo-dydaktyczny Szkoły Wyższej Psychologii Społecznej Wydziału Zamiejscowego w Sopocie. W latach 2007-2011 – sekretarz i redaktor kwartalnika literacko-filozoficznego „Korespondencja z Ojcem”. Od 2012 r. – wiceprezes Pomorskiego Towarzystwa Filozoficzno-Teologicznego. Autorka artykułów naukowych i popularnonaukowych drukowanych w polskich periodykach filozoficznych i literackich. Współredaktorka (wraz z ks. bp. Marcinem Hintzem) monografii Aktualność Sørena Kierkegaarda w filozofii, teologii, literaturze – w 200. rocznicę urodzin, Gdańsk-Sopot 2013 oraz (z prof. Edwardem Kasperskim) Polifoniczny świat Kierkegaarda, Gdańsk 2014.