Action, Language, Art, and Mysticism as Reflection-Levels of an Alternative Semiotics and the Spiritual Perspective of a Value-Levels-Democracy

Abstract

In the wake of Kant’s “Copernicanian revolution,” first actions of the mind, then real actions have become the principle of modern philosophy and sociology. For the author, both kinds of actions are the issue of a philosophical semiotics. He shows up four big semiotic levels of growing inner (ontological) reflexivity: real actions, language as meta-action, art as a meta-language, and mysticism as a meta-art, meaning that mystical activity is pure receptivity for the divine sense-medium which gives itself in a specific human receptivity. Whereas the proposed kind of reflection-theoretical semiotics follows an individual perspective, the collective perspective of reflection-systems leads to a future value-levels-democracy on philosophical fundaments whose spiritual importance cannot be replaced by any individual spirituality.