Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The use of mathematical analogies in the interpretation of self-knowledge of the Divine Super-Being
// Philosophical Thought. – 2025. – ¹ 2.
– P. 26 - 42.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2025.2.73077
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_73077.html
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Abstract: In this article, the authors continue to develop a new ontological perspective outlined in previously published works, in which the descent of a Single Super-Being into the Super-Existence of a personal God occurs without any will on the part of the deity: being due to the freedom imputed to the Absolute to be or to be in both of these states at once, and the Absolute and its other Non-Existence, reflected in each other like systems of two mirrors installed in parallel create a world of many things through successive reflections in each other, similar to the negation of negation: not-not the Absolute = the Absolute itself, which revealed Itself and began to be a personal God, or, in the Neoplatonic scheme, the second ontological level of the existing Mind (Nusa). Further descent through the Neoplatonic levels of the ontology of Mind>Soul>According to the concept we are developing, people follow the same pattern of "negation-negation" of mutual reflections: The Mind, denying its own disappearance, will generate a Soul, the Soul will embody ideas into things so as not to disappear, which leads to the abandonment of the need to immerse ideas in the chorus. In this publication, the authors want to propose a new model for revealing the ontology of the divine through mathematical analogies. The use of mathematical and geometric analogies in the interpretation of divine existence is found more than once in history (for example, in Nicholas of Cusa), however, the classical experiments of "mathematical theology" were formed long before the cardinal paradigm shifts in mathematical science and therefore need a qualitative update of their application as an illustration of the ontology of Reality developed by the authors, as a self-knowledge of the Word generated by God-ideas about the world through the existence of the Cosmos.
Based on the conducted research, the authors come to the conclusion that successive acts of self-knowledge of Reality and the development of being in the ontological time of the observable universe occur in parallel, which is precisely reflected in the coherence of a pair of numbers-names: the imaginary number of the act of self-knowledge of Reality corresponds to the real number of the moment of time in the existence of the world. Thus, the authors conclude that the ontological time of the universe is discrete, and the existence of the world appears as separate frozen frames of the state of the universe at a time corresponding to a numbered act of self-knowledge of a Given. The scientific novelty of this approach is self-evident.
Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The experience of the procedural interpretation of the absolute based on the teachings of Jesus
// Philosophical Thought. – 2024. – ¹ 12.
– P. 139 - 160.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2024.12.72508
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_72508.html
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Abstract: This article is devoted to the consideration of the problems of conceptualizations of the Absolute that have developed in the history of European philosophy and the development of a new approach to understanding the cosmological issue based on the Teachings of Jesus.
The ancient origins of the classical developments of the question of the relation of the Absolute and the cosmos, the peculiarities of understanding the First Principle in medieval philosophy and Modern European thought are shown. Special attention is paid to the experience of dialectical conceptualization of the Absolute in connection with subsequent attempts to overcome it in deconstructivist and postmodern conceptualizations, as well as the experience of overcoming problematic aspects of the static interpretation of the Original in procedural theology.
The article shows that the history of classical philosophy left unsolvable the "aporia of transcendence" designated in Neoplatonism, not being able to positively philosophically explain the transition of the One to many, answering the question: how is something possible besides the Absolute, which is everything.
The vast majority of historical attempts to solve the stated problem represented a "swing" between personalistic and a-personalistic, theistic and pantheistic, static and procedural interpretations while maintaining the insolubility of the fundamental aporia by means of classical metaphysics.
This logically led to the "fatigue" of European thought from the standard conceptualizations used for centuries. The latest attempts to "circumvent" this problem of classical metaphysics, simply "avoiding" it or ignoring it, are also recognized by the authors as unsatisfactory.
The authors reveal the basic meaning of the concept of "absolute", formulate the fundamental cosmogonic and cosmological problems associated with it, anticipating the presentation with a historical and philosophical analysis. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the presentation of the author's version of the resolution of the "aporia of transcendence": The authors base it on epistemological grounds and an indication of the Teaching of Jesus as the main theological source of the proposed concept, in which the Super-Being acquires the mind, self-awareness and personality of God the Father, preached by Jesus through a double reflection of himself into himself from his own denial, non-existence. Generated in the "negation of the negation" of the Absolute, the Super-existent God, in turn, generates worlds as mirrors reflecting Him for Himself in the endless process of His self-knowledge in the Absolute. Ultimately, the article attempts to correlate the impersonal and personal discourses as applied to the Absolute, and to consistently derive much from the One without violating the fundamental principles inherent in the Original.
Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The problems of the neoplatonic disclosure of the hypotheses of "Parmenides" and the solution of the "aporia of transcendence"
// Philosophical Thought. – 2024. – ¹ 12.
– P. 161 - 174.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2024.12.72346
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_72346.html
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Abstract: This article reveals the principle of deducing a set from Unity based on the hypotheses of "Parmenides". The authors establish a correlation between the Platonic and Neoplatonic conceptual presentation of the various stages (levels) of descent from the absolutely One to the absolutely Different. At the end of the article, some of the main problems of Platonic ontology and cosmology are systematized, such as the "aporia of transcendence" and its solution proposed by the authors.
The article analyzes, in traditional theological language, the correlation of the "apophatic" and "cataphatic" aspects of the Platonic One and raises the problem of explaining the transition of the One from one ontological level to another.
It is shown that this difficulty is fundamental for the Platonic tradition as such, among others, and suggests ways to solve it in the form of a mutual reflection of the superposition of states of "being-non-being".
The Hegelian dialectic of contradiction, and the correlation of platonic ontology with some aspects of modern natural science knowledge (in particular, ideas about the superposition of quantum objects) The scientific novelty proposed by the authors in this publication consists in deducing being and the very One-being from the One by "negating negation", similar to the eponymous law of Hegel's dialectic.
The model of negation of negation proposed by the authors through the double reflection of Oneself as One, in our opinion, makes up for the lack of Plato's explanation of the transition from the One to the One-being and solves the general philosophical ontological problem known as the aporia of transcendence. Moreover, being applied to all ontological levels without exception, except for the unclaimed lower level of chora, low-quality matter, it is able to explain transitions from higher to lower levels without the need for emanation as a self-propagation of Good, the causality of which, in our opinion, has not been correctly substantiated.