Witkiewiczowska koncepcja uczucia metafizycznego. Objawienie Istnienia

Abstract

In our considerations we focus on the concept of metaphysical emotion which recurs in the philosophy of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, also known as Witkacy. His analysis presents the emotion as a directly provided personal entity, one that can be described as self-revelation of the essence of Existence itself. This is because Witkiewicz’s Existence constitutes, as the philosopher repeatedly stressed, an entity in multitude. In Witkacy’s monadism the entirety of Existence falls into a multitude of Particular Beings (monads). Our study demonstrates that the concept of metaphysical emotion constitutes an equivalent of Witkacy’s ontology in which the philosopher draws up his concepts and claims relation to each Being. It has been shown that, in terms of personal entity, each Particular human Being uncovers the mystery of Existence. Our conclusions are related to Witkiewicz’s concept of Pure Form. This is because the essence of this concept resides in the acknowledgement that a constructive entity in multitude (quality) also constitutes the very essence of Pure Art. Our research is concluded with a special comparative study of Witkacy’s Pure Form and Ingarden’s concept of metaphysical qualities; the study in which we expose the metaphysical function of art as stressed by both the philosophers.