Time-ings and Question-Points
– An Ontological and
Existential Analyzes –
( Lambert Academic
Publishing – Saarbrücken, 2018 )
ISBN 978-613-8-32972-5
The Book is Illustrated by the Romanian Artist:
From the rather original recognition that Aristotle’s
categories are questions, this essay
focuses on issues of the pote (ποτέ), i.e., the question of the “When”,
and of chronos (χρόνος),
the “concept” of
time. This “concept” is
born from and associated with the question of the “When”. It is a hermeneutical and
(existential)-ontological dialogue, enabling us to think jointly about the
so-called “objectivity” of time and its ontological, phenomenological, and
hermeneutical relatedness to ourselves. The APPENDIX is an ontological and existential analysis of the
question: “What is man?”. It’s conclusion: that this question cannot, and
indeed must not be given a definition-like answer, filled with information and
facts. The “response” – and not
“answer” – cor-responding to, can
only be authentic and open if it claims that: Man is precisely that being who
turns his own existence – in a questioning way, both for himself and “other”
people, interrogating himself via his own world – into an event. The human and mode-of-being-like
questions about the meaning of Being and about the possibility of “What is
man?” actually overlap both in their horizons and in their amplitude and
radicality.
Excursus: Measuring and Measure
............................................................................. 52
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POTE (ποτέ) and CHRONOS (χρόνος)
– Again in Aristotle –
Introduction
..................................................................................... 7
Chapter I .......................................................................................... 9
Chapter II
........................................................................................ 49
Excursus: Measuring and Measure
............................................................................. 52
Chapter III
....................................................................................... 61
Conclusions
....................................................................................... 65
APPENDIX
An Ordeal Around the Existential Question
of “What is man?”…….......………………………..........…………………..
67
ILUSTRATIONS
Irina DUMITRAŞCU
MĂGUREAN ………………………...................…..… 85