Inner Light

  When the child asks us if all the birds that live in Spain are Spanish, he doesn't understand that, although the question is syntactically well formulated, it contains semantic fields that are not coherent with each other, or more precisely, that it contains concepts that do not belong to the same semantic system. Nationality is not an attribute applicable to birds. Many philosophical questions we ask ourselves from the perspective of everyday life (the Lebenswelt), from the vantage point of the world and everyday thinking with which we uncritically construct our concepts, are analogous to the child's question. Since its origins, philosophy has paid great attention to the definition and semantic delimitation of concepts, starting with the concept of "concept." This fussiness, often exacerbating for the non-philosopher, while not eliminating all the problems of thinking, minimizes the most obvious ones. In our philosophical discussion, we have seen discrepancies in t...

  Book: "The Path of Beauty". Chapter One The Meaning of Life When the Soul Speaks, the Self rushes to listen in its lap.   Ila. What, ultimately, is the meaning of Life, Sura? What can and what should I do in relation to my own Existence? Why do so many questions besiege me, robbing me of confidence when I believed I had understood? Years pass, and what yesterday filled me with joy today casts me adrift, a castaway on a lost shore. I search without knowing what I seek, without comprehending what my Soul needs, without even managing to understand it. I feel like a river whose flow has dried, leaving isolated pools and puddles, neither flowing nor completely evaporating under the midday sun; small basins where all manner of elusive creatures and desires thrive, brought to bloom by anxiety, flames of my burning ignorance that later transform into painful questions. Sura. My dear friend, what do your restless questions bring to the perfection of this very instant? Are they ...