Metafilozoficzny charakter Jaspersa kategorii „ogarniającego”

Abstract

In this paper I would like to show that Jaspers’ concept of “encompassing” may be regarded as metaphilosophical. The term itself embodies notion of philosophy as fundamentally nonlinear, existential and perpetually open (philosophiae perennis) kind of thinking which structure (described as dialec- tic relation between “what encompasses” and “what is encompassed”) should be regarded as basic form of every source enlightenment. If philosophy aims for that goal, then Jaspers’ periechontology (as analysis of different modes of encompassing) shows us that it can not be realised by any direct insight – by grasping any specific content of cognition. The sole and only way for philos- ophy to reach what is truly transcendent is to inquire the relation between “what is encompassed” and “what encompasses” as a ground on which every subject-object reality is founded. In this paper I would like to show that Jaspers’ concept of “encompass- ing” may be regarded as metaphilosophical. The term itself embodies notion of philosophy as fundamentally nonlinear, existential and perpetually open (philosophiae perennis) kind of thinking which structure (described as dialec- tic relation between “what encompasses” and “what is encompassed”) should be regarded as basic form of every source enlightenment. If philosophy aims for that goal, then Jaspers’ periechontology (as analysis of different modes of encompassing) shows us that it can not be realised by any direct insight – by grasping any specific content of cognition. The sole and only way for philos- ophy to reach what is truly transcendent is to inquire the relation between “what is encompassed” and “what encompasses” as a ground on which every subject-object reality is founded.