Metaphysics of Creation and its Anthropological Implications in Carlos Cardona

Abstract

Based on texts by the philosopher Carlos Cardona, the author shows the relationship between the real datum and the human being who gets to know it. In this way, he achieves a deeper knowledge of the object, at the same time stressing the importance of the person, in the spirit of modernity. Topics under study are classic: creation, the being, the human person… The novelty resides in not considering object or subject by themselves, but in the relationship between them. From that perspective, the metaphysical difficulty of studying these topics is reduced, at the same time using both “lungs” to breathe: object and subject. The medium joining them is the originary philosophical act, which stimulates the reason, made fruitful by contact with reality, to go deeper into the knowledge of reality itself. This type of work makes the presence of a “foreign body,” such as the being, more acceptable, and allows the analysis of some peculiarities of the human person: unicity, immortal soul, rationality, etc.