The Problem of Symbol in Philosophy :: Symbolism Religion Essays

The Problem of Symbol in Philosophy lacking works citedThe man of the world is indivisible from the point of view of the consciousness. The categories of piazza and time be disposed outside his mind, out of the limits of his conscience. The wanderer everywhere is a metaphysical hero traveling along the landscape of thought, he moves absolutely freely, nonwithstanding the national or temporal forms it (that is, the thought) takes. For all these are living forms, and the traveler is metaphysically alive. Therefore - Mamardashvilli and Montaigne, and Pascal, and Descartes, and Rousseau. And Proust, at last....Listening attentively to The Lectures about Proust, we find the talk of the doubles and cannot distinguish between the commentator and the prototype. In the final layers of the French novel there glimmers the mind of the Georgian philosopher. The idea of the artist (in regard to the idea of the artist) arises in the soul of the thinker. The intelligent impression is impossibl e without the spiritual predisposition, without the inner catastrophe of the spirit. The spirit is unsounded as a principle of reviving of the soul, its coming into contact with the unavowed of the inhabitence. The spirit is the unique and ideal internality, the objective foundation of the ontos that we survive at the highest point of the thought or passion. I am a cerebration thing... It is something doubting, understanding, asserting, denying, willing, unwilling and having imagination and feelings.The great dualist Descartes You were the only one to understand the integrity of the being. The existence is a subjective experience of the reality of meanings, so the substance and the existence (but not the being) are on the opposite poles of the universal, like cardinal pointed ends of the needle, which one can neither seize, nor break. Between them there lies the ideal timeless existence of abstract intentions they are abstract in the sense that not a perceptive object, clear without any words, opposes it, but just the spirit, the mere idea. other the death. We cannot feel it, but we can symbolize it. Put it into shape by means of the intentional movement. The symbol arises there and then, where and when the existence and the spirit jumble in one and only point.The substance and its life are not broken into categories. They (that is, the substance and life) break the intellectual structures, keeping the intellect, which is capable to exist outside any plans, definitions and even explanations.