Metaphysics of Manifestation

Abstract

We may approach the question of reason from three different points of view. First, we may follow the Greeks and make a distinction between certain and dubitable cognition, between episteme and doxa; or, second, we may adopt the critique of reason initiated by Kant and focus on the powers and operations of the human mind assumed to be the source of reason. In this study a third approach is proposed, one that is a counter- part of my previous critique of reason. In contrast to the manner in which the two approaches mentioned first divide rationality into two types (episteme and doxa, on the one hand, and “pure reason” and the “rationality of Nature,” on the other hand), I have in my critique of reason taken the human creative act — and not the cognitive act — as the Archimedean point from which reason and rationality may be differentiated into several types and innumerable strands that sustain the cosmos, life, and the orbit of specifically human life circumscribed by the radius of the human creative genius. Having already investigated the origin of Logos, we will now raise our sights to the vision of the entire spread of the Logos in its manifestation.