Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences

The seeded idea that saw its growth and eventual maturation in the form of this book is the unshakable conviction that the only way by which a new apparatus of philosophy, an organon, could be created is by harking back to the vast sources of imagination, mimesis and cultural inspiration. The idea of this project is simple: metaphysics, insofar as it is concerned with the world in its entirety and with the human being's existence and thought, should provide the working foundations for an organon of cultural sciences, based on symbolic forms. Given that the colossal information and knowledge of philosophy, arts, humanities, logic, mathematics, social sciences and natural sciences cannot be comprised, analyzed and comprehended per se, it is the organon's objective and purpose to extract the main principles, ideas, postulates, theorems and theories of the cultural sciences, and, subsequently, to shape and restructure them as symbolic forms. These symbolic forms are not merely substances or categories. Being grounded on Becoming, through a critical-dialectical process, the symbolic forms preserve and change, elevate and further the apparatus itself-namely, the organon of the cultural sciences. The organon itself is without closure, so that its endless formation will guarantee its perpetual vitality in its everlasting attempt to classify the vast multiformity and diversity of the cultural sciences, as well as to create new symbolic forms.