The Whole in the fragment. The paths of the pulchrum in postmodernity.

Abstract

Modernity has meant a decisive division around the problem of God. The exhaustion of the discursive ways means the revival of the analogical ways to that access. The transcendentals of Scholasticism were a form  of  tackling the plurality of the ens. Since all the created entia are characterized by the unity, the truth, the goodness and the beauty according to diverse degrees, this participation of the transcendentals in everything created, brings human reason not only to the possibility of knowing everything that exists, and thus of being capax entis, but also brings it to the knowledge of the source of the transcendental, in such a way that the human reason is thus capax Dei. In this article we deal with the ways of the pulchrum, as a transcendental of being, and its postmodern concretions starting from the critical philosophy of the art of Chul-Han and its implications in a philosophy of the subject.