Transcendentality as an Ontic Transgression

Abstract

In the frame of epistemological analyses of Descartes, Kant and Husserl, the transgressive aspects of the transcendental I are shown. The human being, realizing the possibilities of the world becomes a kind of lonely monad as if dancing on the borders of existence, a dance created by the power of his own expression. In the context of a Heideggerian interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigon, the situation of the human being as a desperado fighting with the overpowering might of the elements of existence has been recognized. Human existence is marked by an eruption of excess, which is illustrated by an eruption into the power of the abyss, of the ocean and might of the earth – in such a case, human existence is fundamentally transgressive. Heidegger’s interpretation of the power of humanity, that it follows on from the fact that the human being is a strange creature, and also admits that the limits of human learning are the arena of a battle about the shape of the human world, can be treated transcendentality as an ontic transgression.