The presentation of the book will be broadcast on our channels on Wednesday 1 June at 21 pm The depth of nature by Edgar Dacqué. Our guest will be Riccardo Tennenini, animator of Epistème - Knowledge beyond the mainstream.
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ABSTRACT:
For the philosopher Edgar Dacqué, animal species would descend involutively from a humanity that is not tout court identifiable to the current one, but which corresponds to a primordial and non-corporeal stock - Urmensch defines it - from which man materialized, while distinguishing himself from it, nevertheless it constitutes its "perpendicular" and more direct heir. So here is today's man, with his biological and rational faculties, which would represent the closest and most approximate "precipitation" of this original Man, who, not surprisingly, also Plato emphasized that he is endowed with a nature that is profoundly different from that current. The concept of "species", therefore approached to that of "Platonic ideas", at the first term of the Hindu binomial "nama-rupa" (name-aspect), to the Greek eidos intended as an exemplary form that would have performed an archetypal function and which in many of the theological elaborations of the Christian context is connected to the theme of the image of God: from the Alexandrians (Clemente Alessadrino, Origen, St. Athanasius, etc ...) to Gregory of Nissa, to Giovanni Scoto Eriugena, this element does not refer so much to the biological part of man, but to the spiritual part, to the Nous. To what for René Guénon is basically the all-encompassing Universal Man of all his potential (in fact even prior to the Adam-Eve split of the biblical myth) in relation to which we, Homo Sapiens, would be nothing but fallen: indeed even a sort of "second image" of an even lower level than the first principle, absolutely transcendent with respect to the cosmic manifestation, which through the imago Dei shaped this primordial man. But from whose most central impulse, as mentioned, present humanity was born as a sort of chemical "precipitate", along a perfectly vertical line of fall from a higher plane of existence.
DEPTH:
The Eternal Man and the Cosmic Cycles
The specificity of man between evolutionary hypothesis and involutionary perspective: immersed in the cycles of the Cosmos, yet perennially equal to himself.
