Whoever I Am

On the Quality of Life

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3474569
AutoresNicola Masciandaro (0009-0004-1039-6667, City University of New York, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume15
Fascículo6
Páginas735
Data de publicação2024-06-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15060735
OpenAlexW4399728523
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas26

What is the relation between quantification and the mysterious question of identity? What order of quality is proper to the inexplicable fact that one is oneself? Starting with an examination of the ontological blind spots of counting, this essay investigates the priority of quality over quantity, in connection with the spiritual nature of life understood as the spontaneous and infinitely evolving question of itself. It argues, in face of the forces of quantophrenia and numerocracy, for the importance of recognizing the essentially serial and apophatic structure of identity, the existential sense that all entities are the living question of themselves. As such, no individual may be considered as merely a part of reality. Each is, no less, the totality

Epistemology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism