It is an issue important for the continuity of Hungarian philosophy how it is possible to understand and thematically explain the deficiencies and fullness of being experienced in Central and Eastern Europe “here and now”. The interpretations and applied philosophical investigations of István Király V.[1] shed new light on the issues of the mortal historicity and existential ontology of deficiency and secret, deficiency and Dasein, with illness and the experience of death having outstanding importance within it. The physical illness means not only physical suffering, but the deficiency and privation which engages and permeates the possibilities of the sufferer’s modes of being and the qualities of these modes of being in their entirety. Király’s argumentation is compared to the problem of possibilities of being as defined by Béla Hamvas. It is clear that, while Hamvas does not name the possibilities of being, but considers them as available for any concrete individual existence that the self does or can achieve, in Király’s understanding illness has a privileged position within the entirety of possibilities of being, and as such, it means not the absence of health, but pertains to the essence of it. Meaning that the human Dasein cannot be defined – among other things – without the assumption of illness. The concluding part of the paper deals with the problem of the co-original relationship of “sum”, of death and freedom seen by Király as a metaphysical fact.
[1] See: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir%C3%A1ly_Istv%C3%A1n_(filoz%C3%B3fus), accessed January 2013
