Abstract: The aim of the research presented in this article is to attempt to partially fill a gap in Polish philosophical literature, which contains very few references to the important Italian philosopher Enzo Paci (1911-1976). He was one of the key figures in Italian phenomenology, both in the phase of the first interpretations of Edmund Husserl's thought and in the renewed interest in his views during the so-called second wave of Italian phenomenology from the 1960s onwards. Paci formulates a proposal for relationalism – a philosophy of time and relations, which focuses on relations and the subject's openness to relations. The beginning of the text discusses the historical and philosophical context of Paci's work. The main part of the article deals with the concept of relationalism and its assumptions. The final part presents the motives for returning to Husserl's thought.
Excerpt from the article: "To summarise the above considerations, it is worth noting that Enzo Paci was an important thinker for the development of Italian phenomenology. The development of his philosophical views – from his interest in Plato's thought, through the first phenomenological stage, then existentialism and relationalism, to the second phenomenological stage – reveals his key role, especially in the second wave of Italian phenomenology, i.e. at the most important moment in the development of this intellectual current in Italy. The relationalism proposed by Pachi – with its categories of time and relation and its principles of irreversibility, existence, formalisation and meaning or harmony – can be understood as one of the currents of phenomenology. This is his original contribution to the development of philosophy" (p. 67).
Table of contents: 1. Introduction. 2. The historical context of relationalism in Pacy's thought. 3. The sources of relationalism. 4. Understanding relations. 5. The three principles of relationalism. 6. Return to Husserl's phenomenology. 7. Conclusion.
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