La unidad: principio y fin del sentido humano

The fact that we resort to concepts to understand the world and function in it is accepted by most people. However, is it possible to speak of an approach to it that is not mediated by concepts? That is, is it possible to speak of a non-conceptual experience? In this paper I present four perspectives from various philosophers and from different currents (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Nishida and the first Wittgenstein) regarding this type of experience (known in popular jargon as “mystical”). It will be argued that, although said experience of the world as a unit is not conceptual, it is a condition of possibility for the construction of meaning and, therefore, the conceptualization itself.