Interview with Cuban Philosopher Alexis Jardines

Hello everyone, welcome to Barf Stew - yes, I missed you all yesterday - as I've said, this is a `near daily' blog (keeps me from feeling too guilty when no posts are made). That said, I've found yet another winner of a link for you to consider today - an interview with a `Philosopher' who loves Phenomenology (like myself). Here's a few highlights:
AF: Alexis, you promote “actual-virtual correlations” as the central axis of your philosophical system as a way of upgrading the systems of Edmund Husserl and Henry Bergson. Given that this thought is so very different, how has it been received among your co-workers?


Alexis Jardines: Allow me a small correction. As I present and develop them, the concepts of the actual and the virtual are the heirs of the whole western metaphysical tradition. What happened with Husserl and Bergson is that they were the first philosophers who became conscious of the importance of these concepts.

In fact, until these thinkers, such terms —especially as correlated concepts— simply did not figure in the history of philosophy or, since they were not absolute, in any of the important philosophical systems. Just as the Aristotelian categories of “action” and “potential,” the “ideal” and the “material,” as well as “possibility” and “reality,” or “essence” and “existence” are all subsumed in the single idea of correlations or “actual-virtual configurations,” without them, one simply cannot think of the current state of culture.

In terms of the acceptance of such propositions, it is only a matter of time. Due to superficial reflection, undoubtedly, it might seem that the philosopher is a species in danger of extinction. On the other hand, the sole reason there are few philosophers in the world is that the world has decided to begin to philosophize.

Heavy Enough? Wait until you read his thoughts about `Structured Knowledge' Read more - as this link has `actual-virtual correlations' to Today's Barf Stew Tag. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=24472

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