THEOREMS ON THE GOOD NEWS

Abstract

This is an experimental piece of writing by François Laruelle. Via its origins in both Greek and Judeo-Christian thought, philosophy has risen up from the abysses of the world and made its assault on human identity. Philosophy dominates man, and as long as he lives under the philosophical decision or “Ontological Statute” he lives also within an impotence of thought and within an infinite culpability. Yet ultimately man is an inalienable reality, and nothing – not even philosophy – can substitute itself for man and for his identity. There is no reversibility between man and philosophy. Man itself is the abolition of the Statute.

Keywords:

• identity
• mankind
• philosophy
• gospel
• Ontological Statute
• Principle of Sufficient Philosophy

Notes

1 Originally published as François Laruelle, “Théorèmes de la Bonne Nouvelle,” La Décision philosophique 1 (May 1987): 83–85.