Király István
Existence(s)
CONTENTS, BLURB
Contents
INTROMISSION
CHAPTER I
The Names of the Nothing
Closing Excursus: Nothing's Branch
CHAPTER II
Liberty and Truth - Fragments about the "Cave-myth"
A (Possible) Forum for Freedom: Faculty of Philosophy, Chair Of Philosophy and Applied Philosophy - A Lecture on Philosophy Without Thinker
CHAPTER III
The Sacred, Or the Bright Sounds of Silence - A thinking-experiment on Nature, related (and created) to Heidegger and Hölderlin
CHAPTER IV
Ciphers, Existence and the Musicality of Making Philosophy or Karl Jaspers between West and East
CHAPTER V
The Meaning of Life - And the Possibility of Human Illness (Prolegomena)
Excursus: Sketchy considerations regarding the problems of Christian Medicine and Christian healing
Excursus: Dynamis, energeia, entelecheia, and steresis (Aristotle)
CHAPTER VI
Euthanasia, Or Death Assisted to (Its) Dignity
APPENDIX
Library Secret Fonds and the Competition of Societies - Applied Philosophical Analysis
Illustrations
Octavian Cosman, Romanian Painter - Presentation
Blurb
The chapters of the book are seemingly short, but deep explorations on the various fields and possibilities of human being and existence. Such explorations of course reorder and reformulate the timely and essential possibilities of philosophy and philosophizing. These together convey the true weight and stakes of things. For it is indeed so that: "Philosophy is destined to deal with the Deepest and most disturbing questions. It would hardly survive, if they were definitively solved." Therefore the chapters of the volume follow this order: The Names of the Nothing; Liberty and Truth, Fragments about the "Cave-myth"; (Possible) Forum for Freedom: Faculty of Philosophy, Chair Philosophy and Applied Philosophy. On Philosophy Without Thinker; The Sacred, or the Bright Sounds of Silence - a Thinking-experiment on Nature, related to Heidegger and Hölderlin; Ciphers, Existence and the Musicality of Making Philosophy, or Karl Jaspers between West and East; The Meaning of Life And the Possibility of Human Illness; Euthanasia or Death Assisted to (Its) Dignity; Library Secret Fonds and the Competition of Societies. And the presentation of Octavian Cosman, the artistic illustrator of the volume.