“Ethics” of Interval

• Authors: Petru Bejan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the Christian imaginary, the ternary representation of the universe is reiterated by appealing either to the Platonic texts, or to the Stoic ones. The triadic scheme of the worlds certifies an ambiguous status of man, of an individual placed neither here nor there, by the force of some circumstances which he cannot resist. Situated at equal distance from sidereal heights - credited as having the monopoly on perfection - and from the terrifying shadows, managed in a totalitarian manner by the instances of evil, in “the world between the worlds”, he thinks of the interval as of a space of communication, filled with signs, shapes and characters, by means of which distances can be “neared, compressed and “humanised”. Each step, stage, climb or descent is perceived as a “rupture of level”, as overcoming of the human condition by assuming a trans-mundane axiological repertoire

Keywords

EN

Mundus imaginalis; Purgatory; The “Third place”; Intermediate topos; Space of communication

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 67-74

Dates

published

2014-10-01

online

2015-01-16

Contributors

author

Petru Bejan

• Faculty of Philosophy , “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, 22, Carol I Boulevard, Iasi, 700505, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hssr-2013-0039