IMMORTALITY AS METAPHYSICS OF MADNESS IN THE WORK OF J. L. BORGES
The article provides a philosophical analysis of the concept of immortality in prose and poetry of J. L. Borges, its place and significance in the writer’s work. The author of the paper establishes the philosophical prototypes of Borges’s artistic images (cyclical time, mirror, labyrinth, sleep); analyses the correlation of Borges’s artistic images and relevant philosophical interpretations of the problem under consideration (philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel, A. Schopenhauer, M. Heidegger, modern biomedical ethics); describes the ethical status of immortality, according to Borges. It is determined that the concept of immortality is ethically revealed in the contradiction between the immortality of the soul and physical immortality. The author comes to a conclusion that physical immortality, according to Borges, is metaphysics of insanity, as opposed to the idea of the immortality of the soul in the context of the theory of cyclic time.