Studii de Istorie a Filosofiei Româneşti (Dec 2022)
Ion Petrovici: despre necesitatea metafizicii sau cât de aproape suntem de adevăr?
Abstract
In a conference held at Sorbonne on March 25, 1936, “La connaissance humaine et le transcendent” (Human knowledge and the transcendent), Ion Petrovici discussed the following problem which he traced through the history of philosophy to the present day: Is thought capable of perceiving reality itself? He distinguished between the gnoseological and ontological aspects of the problem. The first one is related to the nature and capacity of human functions (sensation, perception, intellect, reason) to intuit and render reality in knowledge. The second one belongs to the very structure of reality, of the object of knowledge. Fundamental categories of Kant’s philosophy, such as existence, causality, and substance are brought into discussion. Provocative, but often puzzling, is that, from whatever field we start, we quickly reach a result that has an almost apodictic meaning: thinking always aims beyond itself.
