Eugenio Trías Sagnier

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Eugenio Trías Sagnier (31 August 1942 – 10 February 2013

Ortega y Gasset[2]
in the philosophical literature written in Spanish.

Biography

Trías was born in

History of Ideas
until his death. Trias died in his home city at age 70.

Trias published over thirty-five books, some of which have had several editions in Spain and abroad. His work is regarded by the critics[3] as one of two most significant philosophical pillars of the contemporary Spanish thought. His first book, The philosophy and its shadow, published in 1969, was called as "the philosophy of a new generation" (Josep Maria Carandell).

Thought

Trías had an encyclopedical conception of philosophy and worked in fields including

theory of knowledge, and ontology
. His personal conception of ontology, usually called the philosophy of Limit," informed much of his work.

In chronological order, the main topics of Trias' philosophical works have been:[4]

  • The shadows of the philosophical theories
  • The reason of the irrational
  • The artists and their society
  • The Sinister as the limit and condition of beauty
  • Passionate love
    as the basis of intelligence
  • The Modernity crisis
  • The human condition as a bordering existence
  • The religious experience
  • The beauty and the
    sacred
  • A new ethics as an ethics of limit
  • The musical turn of the Philosophy

In The Sirens Chant' and The Sonorous Imagination Trias argued that the philosophy of the 21st century must draw upon musical aspects over language, since the former represents the most perfect synthesis of beauty and knowledge.[5]

His main contributions to philosophy

Trias considers himself as an "illuminist exorcist" who exposes philosophical reason to a permanent dialogue with their shadows. As an alternative to

Marxist thought,[6]
he extended reason to spheres including irrationality and the madness (Philosophy and carnival); the mythical and magical thought (Methodology of magical thought); passionate love (Treaty on passion); the Sinister (The beauty and the sinister) as a shade of the categories of beauty and the sublime which founded traditional aesthetics; or the world of religions as the shadow of modern Western reason (The age of the Spirit).

The most significant innovation of Trías' philosophy appeared in the early 1980s, when he discussed the concept of limes ("limit").

Concept of limit

His concept of the limit is the result of an intense dialogue with the

Heidegger, and a commentary on Wittgenstein's statement "subject is a limit of the world." Trías proposed that being (whose issue has always been the main question for Western philosophy from its origins) may be understood as "being of limit" -- that is, the border area that separates as well as joins the phenomena and the noumena. That limit is also the boundary between the reason and its shadows. Whereas in Kant's thought there was not such a limit or borderline that merges and splits the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, Trias held that such a limit exists. He argued that it is a precarious, delicate, subtle but fundamental, and the being that philosophers intend to define. Trias develops an anthropology in which the person is conceived as an inhabitant of the being's limit. On this respect, person is always referred to the abovementioned limit, which for Trias has an ontological significance.[7]

Prizes and awards

Works

  • Philosophy and its shadows (1969, three editions)
  • Philosophy and Carnival (1970, 3 editions)
  • Theory of ideology (1970, 3 editions)
  • Methodology of magical thought (1971)
  • Drama and identity (1973, 3 editions)
  • The artist and the city (1975, 3 editions)
  • Meditation on power (1976, 2 editions)
  • The lost memory of things (1977, 2 editions)
  • Treaty on passion (1978, 5 editions)
  • The language of forgiveness. An essay on Hegel (1979)
  • Beauty and the Sinister (1981, 5 editions)
  • Philosophy of the future (1984, 2 editions)
  • The world's limits (1985, 2 editions)
  • The philosophical adventure (1987)
  • Limit's logic (1991)
  • The tiredness of the West (1992, 4 editions), with Rafael Argullol
  • The age of the Spirit (1994, 3 editions)
  • Thinking religion (1997, 2 editions)
  • Vertigo and passion (1998, 2 editions)
  • The borderline reason (1999)
  • City over city (2001)
  • The life's tree (2003)
  • The truth's thread (2004)
  • Politics and its shadow (2005)
  • The Sirens chant (2007)
  • Philosophical creations (2009), a selection of his collected works (2 volumes)
  • The sonorous imagination (2010)

References

  1. ^ Muere Eugenio Trías, un filósofo que quiso llevar el pensamiento más allá del límite
  2. ^ Among others, José Manuel Martínez Pulet in his PH.D. dissertation (2000, UAM); Andres Sanchez Pascual, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Tous and twelve other writers in Limit, symbol and shadow (Barcelona, Destino, 2003); Fernando Pérez- Borbujo in The other side of beauty (Barcelona, Herder, 2006); Jacobo Muñoz, Francisco Jose Martin and other critics in a reading on The philosophy of the limit. A debate with Eugenio Trías (Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2007); and Arash Arjomandi, in his PH.D. dissertation (2005, UPF).
  3. ^ For instance, the newspaper ABC, August 27, 2002
  4. ^ Arash Arjomandi, Barcelona, Ediciones ElCobre, 2007
  5. ^ Barcelona, Random House, 2007
  6. ^ Jose M. Martínez Pulet, Variations of the limit, Madrid, Noesis, 2002
  7. ^ See Arash Arjomandi, op. cit.; J.M. Martínez Pulet, op.cit., Fernando Pérez-Borbujo, op. cit.
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