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Showing and Saying. An Aesthetic Difference
2013
Wittgenstein’s distinction between saying and showing and the associated thesis, what can be shown cannot be said, were crucial to his first philosophy, persisted throughout the evolution of his whole thought and played a key role in his views on aesthetics. The objective of art is access to the mystical, forcing us to become aware of the uniqueness of our own experience and life. When art is good is a perfect expression and the work of art becomes like a tautology. An important consequence of this understanding of art is the irreducibility of the aesthetic to the scientific perspective.
Rivelazione e conoscenza: la via del filosofo e la via del sufi secondo Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
2012
From the correspondence between Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi the question of speculative knowledge and mystical knowledge is extrapolated here. Principle of knowledge is God but there are two approaches that lead to the same goal.