The diverse chapters of this programmatic book, originally penned as
essays, are pathways within the same itinerary of presenting a
fundamental model of understanding Philosophy: Philosophy is
Spirituality. This itinerary is not only defined by its goal, which is
the Absolute (the all-encompassing term to designate the Supreme Being
or what confessionally is designated as God or Lord), but by the path of
mediation or experience. Parting from the Basic Coordinates of the
Question or the Status Quaestionis, Philosophy is redefined in
view of its Metaphysical Vocation which aims for man to have communion
with the Transcendental Reality, in its Supreme Instance (the Absolute),
which has its roots in contemplation, which is the true metaphysical
attitude in face of the ontological reduction of all reality to thought
which is being in the human knowing faculty.
From Metaphysics to path opens us up as Mystagogy or initiation,
accompaniment into the Mystery which is the Presence of the Transcendent
in the Immanence of Human History. The effectivity of this Presence is
what is understood to be the Mystical, which is not to be reduced to its
external phenomena. Only in Mystagogy can the Metaphysical Project of
Communion of Philosophy be realized as a Spirituality, as a historical
itinerary within human immanence, toward the Transcendental Reality of
the Absolute.
Given the programmatic nature of this work, the chapters are only introductions to the dynamics of discovering Philosophy as Spirituality and thus are bereft of the aim of presenting an exhaustive treatise. Written within a primarily Christian tradition, this opus is a dialogue and seeks to further widen the horizons of dialogue with its succinct and yet profoundly reflective exposition and presentation of viewpoints.