Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The meaning Blaga assigns to dogma implies a logical impasse and a transcendent solution. The intellect is often confronted with choices that appear contradictory when it directs its efforts toward providing abstract meaning to ontological significances that exceed its sphere of applicability. In Blaga's view, dogma represents any intellectual formula that, in radical disagreement with understanding, posits a transcendence of logic, thereby coming into conflict with the usual functions of the intellect. Recognizing these crises, the intellect attempts to find methods to resolve the arising antinomies, but the problem cannot be solved with the intellect’s logical-abstract tools. A different type of logic, or another mode of ordering a reality that surpasses logically represented elements, is necessary. Our study examines how Blaga developed the concept of dogma in parallel with, and in relation to, the idea of transcendence.
Authors: Institutul de Filosofie și Psihologie „C. Rădulescu-Motru al Academiei Române”, Mihai Popa
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407044010