STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE ONTOLOGY OF MARKUS GABRIEL AND GRAHAM HARMAN

Abstract

Speculative Realism, New Realism or Postcontinental Realism is an eclectic current that comes to overcome the aporias and insufficiencies of continental philosophy from a perspective that could be attributed to the same problems as the idealist and constructivist perspective of continental philosophers. For the development of philosophy it is important to engage in conversation with the authors of this movement. This article presents an approach to the successes and insufficiencies of the ontologies of two current authors such as Markus Gabriel and Graham Harman. The strengths and weaknesses of Markus Gabriel's neutral realism and Object Oriented Ontology are presented, in this order. In the last section, by way of conclusions, the common points of the ontologies are pointed out and the idea of ​​event is provided as a line of research that overcomes the aporias that emerge from the contrast between idealism and realism.