Doświadczenie mistyczne w opowiadaniach Alef i Pismo boga Jorge Luisa Borgesa Mystical Experience in The Aleph and The Writing of The God by Jorge Luis Borges
In my paper I undertake an analysis of chosen short stories of Jorge Luis
Borges in which the problem of mysticism occupies an important place. I
claim that Borges, whose works are known for covering philosophical
issues of most fundamental importance, is a writer who describes the
impossibility of reaching a mystical experience in the modern world. As
far as philosophical background of Borges is concerned there exists a
well-spread opinion that Borges, who readily confessed his admiration
for Berkeley and Hume, was an idealist himself. My point is that even
though the Berkeleyan epistemology influenced Borges, there is a
fundamental difference between those thinkers which consists of the fact
that in the philosophy of Berkeley there is a place for God. As a result it
can be claimed that the world as an object of God's experience has a
stable existence. There is no place for such a privileged being neither in
the ontology nor epistemology proposed by Borges. The world as
described by him can be called a fiction because there is no privileged
subject whose experience would not be accidental and private. For that
reason the description of mystical experience is always a failure when it
refers to modern times. I demonstrate it at length by the analysis of the
short story entitled The Aleph, while taking into consideration other texts
as well.
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