The truth about fiction

Ingarden distinguishes four strata making up the structure of the literary work of art: the stratum of word sounds and sound-complexes; the stratum of meaning units; the stratum of represented objectivities (characters, actions, settings, and so forth); and the stratum of schematized aspects (perspectives under which the represented objectivities are given to the reader). It is not only works of literature which manifest this four-fold structure but also certain borderline cases such as newspaper articles, scientific works, biographies, and so forth. Ingarden specifies what is characteristic of a work of literature by asserting that all declarative sentences appearing in the stratum of meaning units of such work possess what he calls a quasi-judgmental character. We discuss here Ingarden’s theory of quasi-judgments and draw out its implication that all works of literature are works of fiction through and through

¿Poseemos y somos un alma inmortal?

Fil: Seifert, Josef

Platón y la fenomenología realista. Para una Reforma Crítica del Platonismo.

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Auto-Presentation of My Philosophy

Philosophical Autobiography. I fell in love with philosophy very early. A decisive event and great gift in my life was that the great philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand, one of the most outspoken intellectual enemies of Nazi ideology,1 was a close friend of my parents and visited our house regularly from 1948 on, when he first returned to Europe. I was then only three years old. 2 After having had to flee Germany in 1933 and Austria in 1938, when the Nazis invaded Austria and sent immediately their death squad to his apartment in Vienna, from where he had fought Nazi ideology in Austria 1933-1938, in order to murder him, he emigrated first to Switzerland, then to France, and finally to the US (New York). Due to his unique, kind, brilliant mind, and radiant, loving and joyful personality, I discovered his unique lovability and loved him deeply already as a child. At twelve years of age, when passing through a kind of philosophical and religious crisis due to my contact with young relativists, materialists, and atheists, Hildebrand’s philosophical lectures and discussions with young people and adults in our home provided me with a strong antidote against these errors. At the same age, I read Hildebrand’s most difficult book Metaphysik der Gemeinschaft, and he assured me in our conversations that I had understood it very well

A Reply to Rovira: Can the "Imperfection" of my Philosophy of Pure Perfections be Overcome?

In his excellent paper “Perfection and Imperfection of Josef Seifert’s Theory of Pure Perfections,” Rogelio Rovira has formulated with precision Anselm of Canterbury’s philosophical discovery of the pure perfections and Duns Scotus‘ refinements of this teaching. He has further attributed to me, more than generously, eight improvements of the philosophy of pure perfections. In the last part of his essay, he has asked two excellent questions about my philosophy of pure perfections which to answer, as well as I am able to, is my present task. Rovira thinks that I have never addressed the first of these two questions, at least not adequately.1 The other issue arises from distinctions expressly proposed by me but has not been sufficiently treated yet. He kindly describes what he means by “imperfections,” rather than in terms of faults, as parts of my position that stand in need of further investigations and are perfectible. In spite of these imperfections, he even bestows the title doctor perfectionum on me, an honor I certainly do not deserve as long as I have no answers for him

ON FORGIVENESS

I chose the topic of forgiveness for this presentation. It was the subject of my very first philosophical essay, a very long one of 58 pages that I wrote between 1957 and 1959, between age 12 and 14. I had read (enthusiastically devoured) before a very profound but the most difficult work of Hildebrand, the Metaphysik der Gemeinschaft, and prior to that some works of Plato and some ethical and epistemological writings of Hildebrand, as well as some writings of Adolf Reinach

El problema de las antinomias considerado como un problema fundamental de toda Metafísica: Crítica de la «Crítica de la Razón Pura».

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