¿Cómo puede un pagano vencer al mundo? Observaciones sobre los Tres discursos edificantes de 1843

Abstract

The 1843 Edifying Discourses seek for the escence of man and action, and they are addressed to the perfect man, not to the aesthete nor the ethical man. Man ought to lose the world, “the best”, his whole, in order to win God and himself, even though in these movement he loses something of himself. Man, as a relation that relates with itself, finds the truth in love, the only thing that remains, and through it he relates with the world and he wins it. The pagan can not win the world because man's truth is reached in the religious and love manifests itself as faith, the only trascendent thing, the autodetermination of the subject, true free action. Love identifies with faith and the world is won by perfect love, which is permanence and repetition, because this is how the individual creates his own object and himself as eternal in spirit through the lover's “I remain”. The knowledge of these is no longer knowledge, for it transforms into action. The truth is interiority.