Die epistemische Differenz

Building on the idea of ontological difference (being and existence and the mode of existential being as the mode of historical reality of life), the essay is reflecting about the epistemic difference of two truths (empirical correctness and ontological truth of form). Critical theory of alienation must measure the world of experience against the ideal-typical standard of the true form of the human being in the light of the bipolar potential (progression – regression, cosmopolitan love – narcissistic destructiveness, homo donans – homo abyssus) of the conditio humana. The true form of man is conceived in his personhood as selfhood in solidaric togetherness which morphologically takes the form of a cooperative grammar in in oikos, polis, cosmos.