The philosophy of Gorazd Kocijančič represents a radical shift in the understanding of man's being and the relationship to his Origin. This apophatic philosophy is based on the method being broken apart, which leads thought from the ontic, through the ontological, into what Kocijančič calls metaontology. The whole edifice of his system revolves around the insight into the hypostatic nature of man, which on the one hand represents a thoroughly exacerbated derivation of transcendental subjectivism, as begun with Edmund Husserl and continued in the works of Martin Heidegger and, above all, Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas, and on the other hand is deeply rooted in the apophatic tradition of ancient Greece and Christianity. Man as hypostasis, in Kocijančič's philosophical reflection, is no longer understood as becoming, but as being itself. As that which gives being to the totality of becoming, which is the I-world or the content of hypostasis. The radical nature of this shift (say, in relation to Heidegger's conception of man as Dasein) is manifested in the fact that the hypostasis is the one and only being that is always mine. With this twist, the highest form of concreteness and intimacy of the individual is introduced into philosophy, which invalidates and recasts all (previous) metaphysical definitions of man. The centrality of the hypostatic insight is first manifested in the field of ontology, where the hypostasis, as the only and always my being, meets its limit in the other being, and immediately thereafter in the field of ethics, where the (meta)ontological insight into the hypostatic receives its practical consummation in the ethical inversion of the hypostasis. On this ontological-ethical basis Kocijančič builds his philosophical system, by addressing (debunking) the classical philosophical themes of Nothing, the Infinite, Eros, science, politics and history.
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