The Everyday Condition of Metaphysics
The question I intend to answer is whether one can speak of a tacit metaphysics, not expressed conceptually, but nevertheless common. If the answer is positive and providing that it is specific to day-to-day life, such metaphysics may be called everyday metaphysics. To this end, I review the...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
2010-12-01
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| description | The question I intend to answer is whether one can speak of a tacit metaphysics, not expressed conceptually, but nevertheless common. If the answer is positive and providing that it is specific to day-to-day life, such metaphysics may be called everyday metaphysics. To this end, I review the meaning of everyday life and its ambivalent character. Next, I present several milestones in the debate on the subject, from authors who have focused on a kind of usual, common or ‘natural’ metaphysics. Lastly, I formulate the idea under consideration, namely that everyday life implies or underlies a certain metaphysics. I note that it is an implicit metaphysics – not expressed formally – and rather free. Embraced in experience with a certain degree of freedom, it is recognisable by means of certain representations active in our mind, by the manner of speaking or of understanding and by the common forms of expression. Its vibrancy, concrete and relaxed character makes it highly evocative of the mental life of an era. It ensures a truly essential difference in our everyday mode of being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-31d7344afe424aa2a865b580068cfe4d2022-12-22T00:24:58ZdeuAlexandru Ioan Cuza University of IasiMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy2067-36552010-12-01II2328369The Everyday Condition of MetaphysicsŞtefan AfloroaeiThe question I intend to answer is whether one can speak of a tacit metaphysics, not expressed conceptually, but nevertheless common. If the answer is positive and providing that it is specific to day-to-day life, such metaphysics may be called everyday metaphysics. To this end, I review the meaning of everyday life and its ambivalent character. Next, I present several milestones in the debate on the subject, from authors who have focused on a kind of usual, common or ‘natural’ metaphysics. Lastly, I formulate the idea under consideration, namely that everyday life implies or underlies a certain metaphysics. I note that it is an implicit metaphysics – not expressed formally – and rather free. Embraced in experience with a certain degree of freedom, it is recognisable by means of certain representations active in our mind, by the manner of speaking or of understanding and by the common forms of expression. Its vibrancy, concrete and relaxed character makes it highly evocative of the mental life of an era. It ensures a truly essential difference in our everyday mode of being.http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/328-369-stefan-afloroaei-meta4-tehno.pdfeveryday lifehabitual and preliminary behavioursphenomenology of the “as-if”common understandingpublicness of timepresuppositioneveryday metaphysics |
| spellingShingle | Ştefan Afloroaei The Everyday Condition of Metaphysics Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy everyday life habitual and preliminary behaviours phenomenology of the “as-if” common understanding publicness of time presupposition everyday metaphysics |
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| topic | everyday life habitual and preliminary behaviours phenomenology of the “as-if” common understanding publicness of time presupposition everyday metaphysics |
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