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Pokusa życia mimo wszystko w myśli Emila Ciorana

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Piechaczek S.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2014
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vol. 42
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issue 1
109-125
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The article considers why it is not worth committing suicide, despite the negative character of human existence. According to Cioran, man’s greatest curse is his self-consciousness, which frequently reminds him of the transitory character of everything and of death, making life unbearable. The best solution would be not to have been born, but if that misfortune should fall upon someone, the solution is to die as soon as possible. Should someone live longer, the best solution is to think how to bear life and to defeat and silence the fear of death. What makes life more bearable is the ability to commit suicide. This gives man a power greater than that of God because one can reject the world and one’ own birth, thus becoming master of one’s own existence. Although death seems to be the only reasonable solution, Cioran does not take his own life away. He chooses the temptation to exist, to live an authentic and full life, and he even offers something resembling wisdom following defeat.
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ILUZJA BUDDYJSKIEGO WYZWOLENIA W MYŚLI EMILA CIORANA

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Piechaczek S.
Roczniki Filozoficzne
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2013
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vol. 61
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issue 4
53-72
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Wishing to defeat or silence a fear of death and not being able to find support from religion, neighbours, culture and ideas, turns Emil Cioran towards the philosophy of the East. Buddhism, which is not an institutionalized religion, refers to reflection and a cognitive effort, and aims at the purification of the consciousness from illusions of the external world. Those illusions create a number of attachments and desires and in this way, they arouse in a man constant anxiety and suffering at the thought of disappointment, failure and loss. In striving for purification from illusions, desires and sufferings, Cioran reaches for Buddhist contemplation techniques over what is left from a man after death, and for the Buddhist notion of emptiness, which helps in removing the content from the world, and thanks to all of this, the fear of death disappears, the impression of undisturbed completeness and happiness is attained, moreover, the state of blissful indifference is achieved. Ultimately, the author of Drawn and Quartered cannot consent to such an existential limbo and imputes to Buddhism, that by renouncing desires, attachments and sufferings, in fact, it renounces life due to pointless indifference, it creates only an illusion of liberation, in the essence, it is strange for a man from the West and therefore, it quickly arouses a desire for a re-involvement in the agitated course of illusions, objects, issues, passions and a common pursuits.
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Pragnąc pokonać lub uciszyć strach przed śmiercią i nie mogąc znaleźć oparcia w religii, bliźnich, kulturze i ideach, Emil Cioran zwraca się w kierunku filozofii Wschodu. Buddyzm, nie będąc zinstytucjonalizowaną religią, odwołuje się do refleksji i wysiłku poznawczego, i zmierza do oczyszczenia świadomości z iluzji świata zewnętrznego. Iluzje te stwarzają cały szereg przywiązań i pragnień, i w ten sposób wzbudzają w człowieku ciągły niepokój i cierpienie na myśl o rozczarowaniu, niepowodzeniu lub stracie. W dążeniu do oczyszczenia się ze złudzeń, pragnień i cierpienia Cioran sięga do buddyjskich praktyk kontemplacji tego, co zostaje z człowieka po śmierci oraz do buddyjskiego pojęcia pustki, które pomaga opróżnić świat z treści, i dzięki któremu znika strach przed śmiercią, dostępuje się odczucia niczym niezmąconej pełni i radości, a także osiąga stan błogiej obojętności. Ostatecznie jednak autor Ćwiartowania nie jest w stanie przystać na takie zawieszenie istnienia i zarzuca buddyzmowi, że wyrzekając się pragnień, przywiązań i cierpienia, w rzeczywistości wyrzeka się życia na rzecz jałowej obojętności, stwarza jedynie iluzję wyzwolenia, jest istotowo obcy człowiekowi Zachodu i w związku z tym szybko rodzi pragnienie ponownego włączenia się we wzburzony nurt iluzji, rzeczy, spraw, namiętności i powszechnej gonitwy.
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Biografia intelektualna Emila Ciorana

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Piechaczek S.
Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
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2011
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issue 14
101–122
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On the formation of Cioran’s vision of the world and man, influenced largely his belonging to precisely this and no other nation. Romanian fatalism, inability to illusions, seeing the inevitable, the Romanian people’s faith in the fact that sin and creation are the same and constant accusations against this creation are the constitutive elements of Cioran’s thought. Carrying the baggage of experiences of the nation thrown out of history and time, Cioran, as a Romanian emigrant in France, found the best model for his own writing in rhetorical and satirical tradition of the French moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who were a combination of “lyrical sublimity and cynicism”, gentleness and hell. They showed him not only what is uncompromising in pursuing the motives of human action, looking at everything from many different perspectives, or suspicion of any kind of doctrine, but they also became for him a model of style. Of all literary forms cultivated by moralists, Cioran appreciated most the fragment, that is to say a closed form, often paradoxical and witty that having nothing in common with the characteristic for large systems long strings of argument – that was a form of recording experience, and like this experience, assumed discontinuity. Being a spokesperson for the “philosophy of the only moments”, Cioran advocated not only against the system, but also against academic philosophy – grown with indifference, regardless of the state of mind, it seemed to him the result of reduction of vitality and a kind of escape into the impersonal world of unrest. State, which fully made Cioran realize the futility resorting to this kind of philosophy, was insomnia, from which the Romanian philosopher had suffered more or less since he was seventeen. According to the author of the Fall in the Time insomnia and boredom are the “minimum imbalance”, which we have to experience, when we want to get closer to some essential truths about man. However, the price that we pay for it, is to get overly heightened awareness and inability to re-engage in life. The “extreme sobriety of look” leads to skepticism, which in the twentieth century in the works of Romanian thinker has its most perfect expression.
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Biografia intelektualna Emila Ciorana

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Piechaczek S.
Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
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2011
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issue 14
101 – 122
EN
On the formation of Cioran’s vision of the world and man, influenced largely his belonging to precisely this and no other nation. Romanian fatalism, inability to illusions, seeing the inevitable, the Romanian people’s faith in the fact that sin and creation are the same and constant accusations against this creation are the constitutive elements of Cioran’s thought. Carrying the baggage of experiences of the nation thrown out of history and time, Cioran, as a Romanian emigrant in France, found the best model for his own writing in rhetorical and satirical tradition of the French moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who were a combination of “lyrical sublimity and cynicism”, gentleness and hell. They showed him not only what is uncompromising in pursuing the motives of human action, looking at everything from many different perspectives, or suspicion of any kind of doctrine, but they also became for him a model of style. Of all literary forms cultivated by moralists, Cioran appreciated most the fragment, that is to say a closed form, often paradoxical and witty that having nothing in common with the characteristic for large systems long strings of argument – that was a form of recording experience, and like this experience, assumed discontinuity. Being a spokesperson for the “philosophy of the only moments”, Cioran advocated not only against the system, but also against academic philosophy – grown with indifference, regardless of the state of mind, it seemed to him the result of reduction of vitality and a kind of escape into the impersonal world of unrest. State, which fully made Cioran realize the futility resorting to this kind of philosophy, was insomnia, from which the Romanian philosopher had suffered more or less since he was seventeen. According to the author of the Fall in the Time insomnia and boredom are the “minimum imbalance”, which we have to experience, when we want to get closer to some essential truths about man. However, the price that we pay for it, is to get overly heightened awareness and inability to re-engage in life. The “extreme sobriety of look” leads to skepticism, which in the twentiethcentury in the works of Romanian thinker has its most perfect expression.
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