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

Authors

  • 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
  • ROMAN KRÁLIK Russian Language Department Medical Institute Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 6, 117198 Moscow, Russia
  • Hedviga Tkáčová University in Zilina Univerzitná 1, 01 001 Zilina, Slovak Republic
  • Marie Roubalova Hussite Theological Faculty Charles University in Prague Pacovska 350/4, 140 00, Prague, Czech Republic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.1.15.31

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

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

Prof., PhD. - One of the most famous philosophers in Latin America concerning the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. She is a member of many foreign companies and has received several scholarships at St. Olaf College in Northfield (USA). Her studies have been published by foreign publishers.

University of Buenos Aires,  Buenos Aires, Argentina 

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

Prof. ThDr., ThD. He currently works as the director of the Kierkegaarod Society in Slovakia and Professor, Senior research fellow at the Scientific and Educational Center of Pedagogical Researches KFU. His main interest is the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard. He also deals with Jewish culture and the problem of education. He is the editor-in-chief of the Acta KIerkegaardiana (University of Toronto) series.

 

Hedviga Tkáčová, University in Zilina Univerzitná 1, 01 001 Zilina, Slovak Republic

PhDr. ThDr., PhD. - She teaches at Faculty of humanities at University in Zilina, Slovakia, and occasionally at the University of the Third Age at University in Zilina, Slovakia. She received her doctorate in the field of Journalism. She has successfully completed Theology studies and later obtained the title Philosophiae doctor (PhDr.) from the field of religionistics. Her research interests include the fields of media, pastorate opportunities through the new media, cultural diversity and education of adults.

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

ThDr.,ThD. - She teaches Hebrew at the Hussite Theological Faculty in Charles University in Prague. Her main interests are Jewish culture, writing, study, interpretation of the Tanakh and the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard.

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2021-06-17

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Binetti, . M. J. ., KRÁLIK, R., Tkáčová, H., & Roubalova, M. (2021). Same and Other: from Plato to Kierkegaard. A reading of a metaphysical thesis in an existencial key. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 12(1), 15–31. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.1.15.31

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021): Journal of Education Culture and Society

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ETHICS

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