Will we ever be able to schematize a plenitude?

By: Maria Odete Madeira

…The radical evil is out there…, for that "the bell tolls for us"…

Will we ever be able to schematize a plenitude?

Plenitude (Plenitudo) signalizes totality (totum).

The Good (Bem, Bene) signalizes plenitude and perfection.

The harmony between the concrete being and its eidos is plenitude and perfection.

The Good is the coincidence between the being and the must be.

The Good is the coincidence between that which some thing is and that which that same thing must be.

Will we ever be able to schematize: good, plenitude and perfection?

Will we ever, us humans, be able to make coincide the being with the must be?

And what about death and suffering? In the light of the eidos of Justice, are death and suffering just? Can death and suffering be called examples of Good?

Particular extreme situations, depending upon the person, can make emerge feelings and extreme practices of altruism, accompanied by feelings of elevation that can give access to planes of Good that help people become better persons, in the sense of acting in conformity with the eidos of Good (Bene).

However, the perception of the eidos of Good does not have to pass by particular extreme situations, it can happen when one is still very young and in a spontaneous way, in a simple looking at the world, in a simple looking at the suffering of the others.

One can approach the perception of the planes of Good, in relation with the reflexibility of which the Cosmos, itself, and all the things in it, are gifted.

Percontor, aris, ari, atus sum..., percontari aliquem...

By: Maria Odete Madeira

Percontor: to probe, to question, to inquire. Percontari aliquem: to question someone about some thing.

The primitive sense of the term incorporates an impulse of formative reason, of vital metaphysical root, marked by the imperative of survival of each existent, as presence and opening to the world, opening to itself, to the life, to its life, to the life of the things, as existing things that show themselves, that appear (aparecem), that seem (parecem), remain and (dis)appear.

The experience (ex-perior), in turn, signalizes an existential sense of proof, a sense of necessity, a sense of unity, a sense of truth, and is situated in the opening of the Being to the Being (itself), as being of the things, of all the things.

Percontor, to question, demands systemic referents of constitutive authenticity, displaced in the being of all the things by the dynamics from a question to an answer.