Mental Territory: The Communicational Condition Of Human Being And Its Pragmatics Relation with Truth. 1st Lecture, Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religions / Vysva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, 8th January 2024 (original) (raw)

As academic critical judgment, social movements and liberalism seem powerless to effectively oppose barbarism, the concept of Mental Territory (2009) is seminal for the ontological turn necessary for hegemonic social theory and philosophy towards non-duality : it is the mind, the "mental images", that defines the reality we live in, the "material images". Psychopolitics does not point to a form of power that would define our time. It points to the form of power that always decides human life, as we find in Western, Indian and Japanese philosophies attentive to non-duality and the fact that suffering comes from reifying primary duality. So, psychopolitical/soteriological emancipation depends on a refined hermeneutics of the mental territory, a delicate archaeological drilling which allows the return of the human being to a state of health, to live the common experience of strength, vitality and flourishing. Our collective contribution is vital to enhance the theoretical-pragmatic capacity for transcultural dialogue, which can foster a philosophical therapy of the mental territory, a transformational pragmatics of suffering existence based on the communicational condition of the human being, which allows to discipline the shadow and thus promote the fusion of horizons and mutual transformation between the interlocutors. Truth is once again the issue. This is what we will discuss at our next meeting.