Philosophy imposes itself on Narcissus from his need to counteract the source of all his possible frustrations, that is, the world. The latter arrives at his consciousness as a continuous stream of sensory data, evoking the following fundamental ontological questions:
a) What is this, that there is? [the world captured as a sequence of empirical data];
b) Of what consists this that there is? What is its essence, its substance?
c) What are the meanings of being?
Such a flow of sensory data seems to arrive at Narcissus's consciousness already under a spatio-temporal order, which leads us to think in the appropriateness of conducting an investigation around the genesis of such notions of space and time, certainly starting from this same genealogical prism.
On the other hand, what is said above in articles a), b), c) may be regarded as a manifestation of the "astonishment before the world", which has been taken as a root of philosophy for so many thinkers since at least the pre-socratic times.
THE DAMNATION OF NARCISSUS
The gorgeous lad in the greek myth dies of starvation, but the one lying at the core of our minds has a very different fate: although it never disappears while our lives last, Narcissus is subject to a particular weakness, namely the sexual desire, destined to dominate him and expel him from his own particular "Paradise," interrupting his "Nirvana"state.
NOTE: We would like to tell you, readers, that Narcissus (that of the myth, of course!) is a character, which appears as a thoughtful guy in two episodes, in the book "Owl Minerva's Overlying the Twenty-first Century". Click on the title and you will have a sample.
a) What is this, that there is? [the world captured as a sequence of empirical data];
b) Of what consists this that there is? What is its essence, its substance?
c) What are the meanings of being?
Such a flow of sensory data seems to arrive at Narcissus's consciousness already under a spatio-temporal order, which leads us to think in the appropriateness of conducting an investigation around the genesis of such notions of space and time, certainly starting from this same genealogical prism.
On the other hand, what is said above in articles a), b), c) may be regarded as a manifestation of the "astonishment before the world", which has been taken as a root of philosophy for so many thinkers since at least the pre-socratic times.
THE DAMNATION OF NARCISSUS
The gorgeous lad in the greek myth dies of starvation, but the one lying at the core of our minds has a very different fate: although it never disappears while our lives last, Narcissus is subject to a particular weakness, namely the sexual desire, destined to dominate him and expel him from his own particular "Paradise," interrupting his "Nirvana"state.
NOTE: We would like to tell you, readers, that Narcissus (that of the myth, of course!) is a character, which appears as a thoughtful guy in two episodes, in the book "Owl Minerva's Overlying the Twenty-first Century". Click on the title and you will have a sample.
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