Viață conștientă versus existență inconștientă. Filosofia practică a lui Anthony de Mello.

In spite of a general opinion, the source of philosophy cannot be found in the spiritual heights or in the need for an explanation beyond the common understanding. On the opposite, philosophy seems that it was born from a man's necessity, from his need to put order in his own life. He fulfilled this necessity by different means, laic or religious. But mainly, man was in search for a fulcrum point for a Master, a visionary able to see more clearly than him – a man blindfolded by the shades reflected by the cave walls. The most appreciated, most understood and utile – but not utilitarian, were the ones showing to people let's say, the right path. Both the Occident ant the Orient bring, in different periods of history, guides who, starting from the daily existence topics, reach finally, a practical formula of life – a formula through which the average man re-cognizes his own spiritual nature. Anthony de Mello is such a philosopher. From the religious positions, being a Catholic priest, from the laic positions, being also a psychologist and philosopher but mainly from the position of the spiritual wisdom, being born in India, Anthony de Mello offers to the modern individual an inédit but also an intelligible form of philosophy. Utilizing the human imaginary and the literary-spiritual metaphors, he pleads for a life in accord with the goal it was created –an awake and conscious life, free from the different categories of slavery created by the political, financial and religious ideologies, under the umbrella of the offering comfort and happiness. Moreover, the use of the metaphorstories in an Oriental style brings alongside of the surprise of the originality, a strong emotional echo, too, which reaches an understanding beyond the reasoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]