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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   THEN LITTLE TIGGERS .

Authors:  GIZELA HORVATH. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Ten little Tiggers. When a text of a philosopher like Friedrich Nietzsche and one from a writer like Jorge Louis Borges touches the same sore spot of our occidental culture, perceiving in different ways the same “breach” in the ideational edifice seemingly perfect and indestructible – we have the chance to “get an insight into depth”; even if we risk that “depth looks in us”. Borges in his story “Blue Tigers” and Nietzsche in his fragment “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” offers the hypothesis of lack of foundation of the simplest “truths”. What could be more elementary and fundamental than the operation of counting that lies at the base of our whole knowledge? The tigers of Borges are so monstrous because they represent an un-numerable reality questioning knowledge as a base of culture and culture as a base for humanity.  
         
     
         
         
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