Metaphysics of an Act as a Topic of Implicit Education among Chisinau Jews as Exemplifi ed in a Memoir Analytical Novel by a Native of Chisinau

Abstract

Within the framework of the interdisciplinary noetic system of concepts developed by us, “metaphysics of an act” as a term implies one of Besht’s constant concepts determined by two basic principle maxims: “Nothing is in vain” and “To save everything.” We refer to the spiritual as noetic (following V. Frankl and C. Geertz), but not in the theological sense, but in the anthropological one. Specifi c ways of implicit exemplifi cation and translation of these principle maxims are revealed in the behavioral realities of several generations of a Jewish family from Chisinau as exemplifi ed in Gita Govinda (Song of the Shepherd), a memoir analytical novel by Elena Cușnir. To examine this narrative, the interpretative ethnological noetic model titled Th e Decalogue: Th e Aspect of Upbringing (the Case of an “I-Document” as a Literary Work) was applied. As a result, the forms in which the principle maxims “Nothing is in vain” and “To save everything” can be present in the consciousness and /or the unconsciousness of a modern person are demonstrated; in addition, behavioral realities, due to which they become the object of translation, are revealed. Th e anthropological noetic content of the concept of “ethics”, which corresponds to the ideas by A. Schweitzer, E. Fromm, and V. Frankl, is specifi ed.