https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.3.03
The aims and scopes of this paper are expressed in its title, namely the phrase: Primum ethicum et primum anthropologicum et primum metaphysicum conventuntur. The author of the text argues that in the act of cognition we are given a full, complex and rich reality. That spontaneous, common and broad contact with the reality may be divided into experiences which are narrower in their scopes and stand at the cores of different philosophical disciplines. The latter is done to allow capturing the specificities of different aspects of this rich reality.
The paper proves that the unity of these experiences along with the resulting unity of philosophical disciplines is based on the fact that the ethical-experience or anthropological-experience-based description of what something is like, turns out to be insufficient, because it is implied by a question of metaphysical experience: why is this like it is. From the perspective of anthropology the description in ethics of moral obligations requires answering the question: why should I do what I should do. In the sphere of metaphysics the latter requires answering another question: why in the end should I do what I should do. In this way, the process of cognition, which is separated into different experiences at the starting points of the mentioned philosophical disciplines, integrates in the end into one unified concept. The latter takes place through the explanation of the facts described in these experiences.
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