The Efficiency of Applied Philosophical Thematization: The Works of István Király V.* in the Context of European Philosophy

The subject of this paper is the presentation and contrasting analysis of the so-called "ultimate metaphysical questions" in the works of Istán Király V., who had spent several decades of consistent fathoming of the senses of life, death, freedom, history and illness. Although Király's Heideggerian thinking, his commitment to fundamental ontology and hermeneutics is beyond dispute, he can be regarded as an independent thinker who forms his own thinking autonomously and independently from the authors he prefers to refer to (Kierkegaard, Heidegger, etc.) His originality lies in the fact that he rethinks and takes forward the Heideggerian questions and answers, trying to join the abstract views of fundamental ontology with the " lifecommitment" of applied philosophy. This way he sees the questions of death, freedom and illness connected to euthanasia or abortion, that is, the concrete questions of human existence which often test the limits or paralyse freedom. The paper does not claim that Király's radical interpretation of being is an isolated attempt. Therefore the author of the paper compares Király's applied philosophy experiment with other similar approaches of the 20th century, such as Ernst Bloch, Nicolai Berdyaev, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre, in the mirror of whose works the originality and challenging innovation of Király's thoughts is even more apparent.

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