Êthos Mystéthikos: The Poetized Critique (by M. Santos)
SUMMARY GENERIC Starting from the poetized critique of metaphysical pessimism and with a clear focus on the metaphysics of the beautiful, taken as both a starting point and a background, this book embodies a unifying understanding of the notions of value and freedom in aesthetics and ethics. From the exaltation of music as a privileged way of accessing reality (das Ding an sicht), the possibility and how of immediate and timeless knowledge unfolds, something that presupposes an epistemic extrapolation of the logical square of science, guided by the paradigm of subject and object, both mediated by the understanding. Some neologisms are presented, highlighting mistese-mystéthika, the basic 'binomial' for future metaquantum. Thus, instead of perpetuating the old three-dimensional dualism, the stylistic boldness of M. Santos will lead us to a new interpretation of the meaning of the world, proposing five-dimensionality as the new epistemic paradigm, something that will have reper...