Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Being and Existence

by Maria Odete Madeira

In Plato, as in Parmenides, the Being is not addressed from the plane of the Existence, but from the plane of the Truth.

The Being is the very act of Being, immediately realized within the Being, itself.

To Be the Being is the realization of the Unity in its irreducible absolute act of Being.

When, within a Platonic position, one states that the Beautiful, the Good or the Truth ARE, one is stating that the Beautiful, the Good, or the Truth are in themselves as such: Beautiful, Good and Truth.

This in itself is a non-reflexive state of the Being, as condition of itself, without any constitutive relational element, that is, without reflexivity, but that, because of that, it can, itself, constitute itself as condition of possibility of the existence of the entities in the rotative relational positions of the different and diverse modes of the being-there (dasein), being there with the others (mitsein).


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