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Four False Substantivations
Nov. 12th, 2005 09:06 pm(M)odern philosophy, despite all of its variations, has been erected upon four concepts which to my way of thinking are four false substantivations: space, time, consciousness, and being. It has been thought that things are in time and in space, that they are all apprehended in acts of consciousness, and that their entity is a moment of being. Now, to my way of thinking this is inadmissible. ( Read more... )
In the face of these four enormous substantivations, of space, time, consciousness, and being, I have advanced an idea of the real which is prior to them. This is the theme of my book Sobre la essencia (Madrid, 1962): philosophy is not philosophy of objectivity or, being, nor is it phenomenology or ontology; but rather it is philosophy of the real as real; it is metaphysics. Thus intellection in turn is not consciousness but rather mere actualization of the real in the sentient understanding.
Xavier Zubiri, Author's Introduction to the 1980 English edition of Nature, History, God (1942).
In the face of these four enormous substantivations, of space, time, consciousness, and being, I have advanced an idea of the real which is prior to them. This is the theme of my book Sobre la essencia (Madrid, 1962): philosophy is not philosophy of objectivity or, being, nor is it phenomenology or ontology; but rather it is philosophy of the real as real; it is metaphysics. Thus intellection in turn is not consciousness but rather mere actualization of the real in the sentient understanding.
Xavier Zubiri, Author's Introduction to the 1980 English edition of Nature, History, God (1942).