In “La Libertad en la Filosofía de la Cuadratura de Heidegger,” Alejandro Rojas Jiménez continues his analysis of the Quadrature as follows: “Empezaré por exponer el sentido simbólico de los Mortales como los que son capaces de la muerte como muerte. El sentido fundamental de esta definición es que sólo él vive ante la presencia … Continue reading A.R. Jiménez on the Quadrature

The Quadrature has been formulated and discovered or re-discovered many times in history. A book might be written to explain how and when the Quadrature is forgotten or recedes into the background. Perhaps the least understood formulation is that of Martin Heidegger. As M. Robitaille notes, following the studies by Jean-Francois Mattéi, Heideger´s “quadrature” (Geviert … Continue reading The Quadrature : Le Quadriparti – La Cuadratura

If we don’t think and speak Being, then we think and speak in oppositions and remain in oppositions. Our action then is self-defeating, banal and incomplete. Now, human thinking and speech necessarily blossoms and opens up as a series of differentiations, each one presenting us with a fragment of of the world. The basic differentiations … Continue reading The Fourfold Thoughts Of Being

In these  pages I frequently refer to and build upon a structure with four “modes” or “terms” – namely those of Person, Subject, Agent and Object. At its core, this model is not original, and stems from the work of many disparate authors, in different areas of knowledge. For the sake of rigour and completeness, … Continue reading Quadratures: Person, Subject, Agent and Object