EIRP Proceedings, Vol 2 (2007)

Abstract

The paper presents the three secondary meanings of the rational and irrational, analysed by Mircea
Florian – explaining by natural and real causes the meaningful action, which has a humane or vital finality, the
life unfolding as “reasoning” and “managing”, as “system” determined by an act of will, by consciousness and
their opposites, respectively – as well as the main meaning of the raţional – as unity and multiplicity - and of the
irrational as the absolutization of one of them, of synthesis or analysis. The study tackles also some
“contemporary application” of the irrational and of the way in which Mircea Florian considers individuality,
motion ( and development ) as wel as evolvement which he does not attribute to and principle. In motion and
evolution coexist concepts like unity and plurality : motion is a process in which discontinuity and continuity
blend, and development is “a gradual continuity of discontinuous qualities”; reason is not only inference, but
also ”a continuously variable interdependence of unity and multiplicity, of the identica land the different”.