Here is a sample extract what is the history of philosophy as Salvador Paniker, a book that we hope some with some anxiety for some time.
In my book (unpublished) Genealogy of clarity I've drawn the machinery retroprogresivo along different moments in the history of Western philosophy. Mention, for instance, the emergence in Europe of medieval nominalism, in a to-node, marked the collapse of the system of Christianity. Let's see. The famous Black Death of 1348 can be considered the symbol of a great historical divide. From that date, and over several centuries, there is no harmony between reason and faith. The balance retroprogresivo is broken. West is scared. It is a time of misfortunes and calamities. no philosophical synthesis that serves as protection. Death occurs terror, illness, scandal, and the arbitrariness of the cosmos, stupor. And I say, the philosophical movement behind this state of affairs is nominalism. Universal concepts are only signs, give the mind, all unique. The transcendence philosophical thread is broken. Now, with the intellectual thaw nominalist done by critics as compensation retro, there are some mystical authors. Is the germ of a new sensibility that is no longer strictly Christian. If the individual things are unconnected to each other, and if God is not a vocis flatus, God must be immanent to the things to ensure their relationship. Here is a fertile ground for the "in-thusiasmo" Renaissance, and also for speculative mysticism of Meister Eckhart, who boldly proclaims that "nothing is as one and indivisible as God and all creation." For Eckhart, God is not the opposite of the world, but the unity of opposites in the world. More front, nominalism and concur in a German mystic Nicholas of Cusa, genuine example of retroprogresivo mused.
In fact, the nominalisimo is an epistemological crisis, which takes centuries to resolve. On the one hand, the immanence of God, things will be, as I said, the 'Enthusiasm' aesthetic renaissance around the world and nature. On the other hand, the scientific revolution of Galileo and Descartes idealistic eventually turn shaping the new currency code.
Anyway, should always take into account the dual effect of the process of history, philosophy and culture: new rationale, approach the origin. Or: pathogenic and therapeutic sophistication mystique. Struggle innovative and new synthesis. Speculation followed by "yoga." The yoga that we paid back to the origin. The origin, as taught by the Tao-Te Ching, is the place of peace .
"asymmetries" of Salvador Pániker
