Philosophical Alternatives 2/2023

Aleksandar Gungov (Prof. DSc. at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’)
The Mutual Conditioning Between the Eidetic and the Genetic Method in Husserl's Philosophical Logic
https://doi.org/10.58945/DPUL3635
Abstract: The principle characteristics of Husserl’s eidetic and genetic method have been elucidated in connection to transcendental criticism, intersubjective constitution, various types of evidence, fulfilled intentionality, and eidetic intuition. The mutual interdependence of both methods is discussed stressing the leading role of the eidetic method. Special attention is paid to the term “deceptive evidence”; it is explained how through the combined efforts of both methods the deceptive evidence can be identified and overcome. The primordial function of circular teleology based on transcendental Ego’s inherent teleology is underlined.
Keywords: eidetic and genetic method; circular teleology; deceptive evidence; transcendental Ego; intersubjective constitution

Georgi Donev (Associate Professor at South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’, Blagoevgrad)
A Metaphysical Ontologization of Consciousness
https://doi.org/10.58945/ZTRP1809
Abstract: The article substantiates the understanding of critical metaphysics as transcendental thinking, which defines the limits of transcendental consciousness. Transcendent thinking is explicated as a fundamental pre-object form of synthesis, which determines through non-classical logical language the existence of the possible objects of thought and knowledge. The thesis that the ontologization of consciousness is a relative form of thinking that constructs the interpretations of existence is substantiated. In this sense, ontology is understood as a universal comparability of interpretations that are a priori non-contradictory. On this basis, a reconstruction of the Platonic metaphysical understanding of the One and its rational explication through Kant's transcendental logic was realized.
Keywords: transcendental thinking; transcendental consciousness; ontological form of being; phenomenology

Nina Dimitrova (Professor, DSc. at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The Anti-Philosophy of Lev Shestov
https://doi.org/10.58945/OSCE4403
Abstract: The text discusses specific features of Lev Shestov's philosophical style, highlighting the main accents in it even with his first works, Shestov gained the reputation of a philosopher who denied philosophy. The following philosophical figures are discussed the paradoxicalist, the groundless man, the anti-dogmatist and the anti-metaphysician, etc., emblematic of Shestov. Important facts from his biography are examined, the totality of which could be part of the explanation for the originality of his thought, one of which is the lack of an academic philosophical education. Other relevant facts are the ethnic background as well as unusual circumstances of his early years. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Shestov and Husserl regarding the understanding of philosophy(the main opposition is between the conception of philosophy as a reflection Besinnung, and of philosophy as a struggle) the main stages in these relations are traced chronologically. Finally, Shestov's opinion on Indian thought, which he began to get to know and deal with since 1934, is presented, and his dissatisfaction with this thought is also discussed.
Keywords: Lev Shestov; philosophy and religion; reflection and revelation; Athens and Jerusalem; E. Husserl

Yana Stefanova (Assistant Professor, PhD at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
The Philosophical Sense of the translatory-interpretive technique of the Geyi
https://doi.org/10.58945/NTCB3478
Abstract: The article aims to present the controversy surrounding the geyi's translation and interpretation technique, which was used in the third and fourth centuries in China, commonly translated as "matching concepts", which is the most distinct manifestation of the adaptation of Buddhist concepts to classical Taoist doctrines. For this purpose, its basic philological and philosophical interpretations of the term are presented. Studying the spread and adaptation of Buddhist doctrines in China gives the unique opportunity to balance these two opposing positions. The very specificity of the philosophical sense of the translator and the interpretive technique of the geyi is considered in its aspect as one of the main factors that shaped the features of Chinese Buddhism and its subsequent final detachment from its Indian equivalent. Its use and improvement mark the beginning of the formation of East Asian Buddhism as an essentially new Buddhist doctrinal strand.
Keywords: Geyi; matching concepts; Chinese Buddhism; adaptation