From experience to gift. Reflections on life as disclosed to consciousness. Part 2

Autor

  • Mátyás Szalay International Academy of Philosophy, Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1913

Słowa kluczowe:

life, death, encounter, reduction, donation

Abstrakt

In the first part of this meditation I argued concerning the self-disclosure of life to consciousness that there is something prior to all concrete conscious reflection on life and thus prior to whatever notion of life. We are already affected by life before thematically and reflexively experiencing it.
In this second part I would like to investigate how this original vital experience (Erlebnis) in which life is disclosed in a silent way is transformed by consciousness to reflected conscious experiences. This transformation that allows for a new access to life at the same time necessarily goes along with a certain reduction. It is this reduction that has to be traced back in order to discover the full meaning of life, i.e. the donum (the self-giving character of life) behind the data or simple givenness of life.
I realize this step analyzing three typical forms of experiences in which life thematically reveals itself, such as new life, death and encounter. In each of these experiences of life the data of life contains a reference to the underlying donation: the self-disclosure of life in form of a gift of life. This allows me to argue that that in any ‘vital-experience’ what offers itself to the personal encounter is the full Life as such. Further I show how the gift of life is to be discovered in all three dimensions of its manifestation: life-world, inner life of the soul and event.

Biogram autora

  • Mátyás Szalay - International Academy of Philosophy, Granada
    Assistant professor at the International Academy of Philo­sophy­‑Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein and the Instituto de Teología “Lumen Gentium” (Grana­da), where he teaches cosmology, philosophy of human sciences and aesthetics. Mátyás studied philosophy and German Philo­logy in Buda­pest (ELTE Univ.) and completed his PhD in Philo­sophy at the International Academy of Philo­so­phy in Liechtenstein with a work on the phenomenology of encounter. His main field of interest is philosophy of religion. He has published numerous translations as well as articles on friendship, conversion, testimony and imagination. Dr. Szalay is Assistant editor and editor of two anthologies on realist phenomenology: Anthologie der realistischen Phänomenologie, eds. J. Seifert, C. M. Gueye, Walter de Gruyter, 2009 (Realistische Phänomenologie / Realist Pheno­menology, 1) and Mi a fenomenológia? Szöveggyűjtemény a realista fenomenológiához: Adolf Reinach – Edith Stein – Dietrich von Hil­de­brand, eds. M. Szalay, P. Sárkány, Budapest 2010. He is author of the book Bevezetés a hivatás filozófiájába, Budapest 2015.

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