Nae Ionescu și cunoașterea ca paideumă metafizică a realității

The present work aims to synthesize the essential elements related to the problem of the relationship between Nae Ionescu’s metaphysics and knowledge. The relationship in question is seen through the prism of the conception of Leo Frobenius, the well-known philosopher of culture. If in the conception of the mentioned philosopher the paideuma represents the transcendence of the environment, which has become a form through people, in the case of Nae Ionescu, we could consider that the metaphysical paideuma is a transcendence of reality, which has become a form through knowledge, this being the hypothesis of the present research. In this sense, the essential concepts related to Nae Ionescu’s Theory of Knowledge were considered, such as: the object of thought, the relationship between thinking and knowledge or between knowledge and reality, the logical conditions of existence, the relationship between self and reality. Starting from these concepts, the ways of man’s reporting to reality, the poses of reality, as well as the contents of Nae Ionescu’s metaphysics, living, mysticism, the world and the finitude of existence were addressed.