Conception of Human Being in Analytical Idealism: How Human and Cosmos are Interlinked Through Consciousness

Juraj Popovič

doi:10.1515/humaff-2022-1013

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Conception of Human Being in Analytical Idealism: How Human and Cosmos are Interlinked Through Consciousness

Juraj Popovič

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From the journal Human Affairs Volume 33 Issue 2

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The relationship between human and cosmos is still quite a mystery. The ancient intuition about interconnectedness of human and cosmos was replaced by a worldview in which human is part of nature primarily through the continuity of the body with the outer nature. The mind is seen as a unique phenomenon mysteriously emerging from matter. To this mystery responds philosopher Bernardo Kastrup by proposing an ontology that turns the mind-matter relationship on its head: the matter is part of the mind, and not vice versa. This article briefly examines the historical evolution of understanding of the relationship between human and cosmos, introduces the ontology called analytical idealism by B. Kastrup and discusses how idealistic ontology can help us understand our relationship with the cosmos on a deeper level.

Keywords: consciousness; mind; matter; analytical idealism; Kastrup

Corresponding author: Mgr. Juraj Popovič, Department of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Gondova 2, 811 02, Bratislava, Slovakia, E-mail: juraj.popovic@gmail.com

Funding source: Paradigmatic changes in the understanding of Universe and Man from philosophical, theological, and physical perspectives

Award Identifier / Grant number: APVV-18-0103

Research funding: This research was funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract no. APVV-18-0103: Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical, Theological, and Physical Perspectives.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2022-12-03

Revised: 2023-02-22

Accepted: 2023-02-25

Published Online: 2023-04-07

Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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consciousness; mind; matter; analytical idealism; Kastrup