The Metaphysics of Overcoming —Ontological Foundations

• Authors: Matsyna Andrey I.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article studies the phenomenon of overcoming and provides a rationale of the understanding of the totality of human experience that integrates the situation of over-coming as that of the transcendence of human existence. As the basis of the research we use an integrated model of archaic cultural overcoming of the life–death dichotomy— a metaphysics of overcoming. A result of this metaphysics is a specific dialectical on-tology of myth, represented as an ontology of return. Manifestationism, holism, alo-gism, metamorphism, animism, cyclism, and sacralism are the general principles of this ontology. Return ontologies are in conflict with the ontology and metaphysics of the finite present in the religious and scientific worldviews. The author sees the prospects for a further study of the phenomenon of overcoming in using the subjective energistic approach that leads to understanding the phenomenon of overcoming at the biosocial level. The results of the research can be used as a philosophical basis for the develop-ment of an archaeological activity theory, in particular, a unified integrated approach to the ancient burial ritualism. They also allow to deepen the theoretical concepts of man, society, and culture.

Keywords

EN

anthropological crisis; an overcomer; the overcoming phenomenon; the metaphysics of overcoming the dichotomy of life and death; thanatological concepts; funeral rites; death; initiation; the return ontology; the ontology of the Finite; the culture of overcoming

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 53-72

Contributors

author

Matsyna Andrey I.

• Chelyabinsk State University, Bratyev Kashirinykh, 129, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinskaya oblast, 454001, Russia