Abstract

The philosophy of Eugenio Trías contains reflections on the practical usage of reason that seeks conciliation between the universality and unconditionality of the ethical imperative and the existential particularity of the free and responsible response to this transcendental proposal that is revealed through the voice of the conscience. Against the acritical and dogmatic positions of myth and of pure reason and against the cultural relativisms of historical reason, he proposes a symbolical rationality through the mediation between the physical reality and the metaphysical reality that establishes the terms of conciliation between heteronomy and moral autonomy. The desire for a good and happy life is satisfied not in the totalitarian utopias of liberal individualism and despotic collectivism or the illusory eschatologies of myth and superstition but rather in the just measuring of the limited condition of humans on the threshold between the natural world of appearance and the supernatural world of mystery.

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