Same and Other: from Plato to Kierkegaard. A reading of a metaphysical thesis in an existencial key

• Authors: María José Binetti , ROMAN KRÁLIK , Hedviga Tkáčová , Marie Roubalova
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Aim. In his Kierkegaardian studies Jean Wahl states that there is a fundamental convergence between Plato and Søren Kierkegaard focused on the notions of identity and difference. Wahl suggests a sort of transposition of platonic metaphysics into the sphere of personal subjectivity. This paper intends to explain this passage from the same to the other from Plato to Kierkegaard. Concept. The article explains the passage from the same to the other from Plato to Kierkegaard. In both authors, the categories of being or not being, identity and difference, unity and multiplicity, becoming and rest explain the dynamic nature of the real. Results and conclusion. In both authors, the categories mensioned above explain the dynamic nature of the real. But while Plato applies these categories to the inteligibile word, Kierkegaard applies them to individual freedom, which supports reality as a whole. Cognitive value. Both searches lead to a single speculative answer and culminate in the same metaphysical categorisation, which applies analogously to everything real. Indeed, being and non-being, identity and difference, oneness and otherness, rest and becoming, explain the dialectic, intensive and relational dynamism of entia. At the same time, they essentially determine the power of human existence, infinitely possible and forever depending on the absolute.

Keywords

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Kierkegaard, Plato, categories, freedom, metaphysics, human existence.; Kierkegaard; Plato; categories; freedom; metaphysics; human existence

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-31

Dates

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2021-06-17

Contributors

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María José Binetti

• Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies - Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Puan 480, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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ROMAN KRÁLIK

• Russian Language Department Medical Institute Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 6, 117198 Moscow, Russia

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Hedviga Tkáčová

• University in Zilina Univerzitná 1, 01 001 Zilina, Slovak Republic

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Marie Roubalova

• Hussite Theological Faculty Charles University in Prague Pacovska 350/4, 140 00, Prague, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs2021.1.15.31