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This essay defends philosophy as a rational practice founded on knowledge, in contrast with approaches that confuse it with mythopoetic narrative or metaphysical speculation. Beginning with the distinction between logos and mythos, it argues that philosophy constitutes itself as a critical discipline when it refuses both the appeal to transcendence and the language impregnated with metaphysics. Through the analysis of the proposition “Evil is a cosmic force”, it demonstrates how certain formulations fail when confronted with the criteria of intelligibility, criticizability, and public justification. It further maintains that the persistence of the term metaphysics, even in contemporary discourses that deny the transcendent, reintroduces through language precisely that which it seeks to refuse. As an alternative, the Ontology of Emerging Complexity is proposed as an immanent philosophical regime, capable of clarifying the real without appealing to ultimate foundations. In this framework, philosophy does not invent narratives: it offers reasons, distinguishes levels, and symbolically organizes the world out of its own complexity.
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Title Philosophy Is Not the Invention of Narratives: Reason, Knowledge, and the Refusal of Metaphysics
This essay defends philosophy as a rational practice founded on knowledge, in contrast with approaches that confuse it with mythopoetic narrative or metaphysical speculation. Beginning with the distinction between logos and mythos, it argues that philosophy constitutes itself as a critical discipline when it refuses both the appeal to transcendence and the language impregnated with metaphysics. Through the analysis of the proposition “Evil is a cosmic force”, it demonstrates how certain formulations fail when confronted with the criteria of intelligibility, criticizability, and public justification. It further maintains that the persistence of the term metaphysics, even in contemporary discourses that deny the transcendent, reintroduces through language precisely that which it seeks to refuse. As an alternative, the Ontology of Emerging Complexity is proposed as an immanent philosophical regime, capable of clarifying the real without appealing to ultimate foundations. In this framework, philosophy does not invent narratives: it offers reasons, distinguishes levels, and symbolically organizes the world out of its own complexity.
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Tags origin, emergence, normative exclusion, symbolic reinscription, ontology of complexity, genealogy
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