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2025
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18060879 |
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- <p>This paper proposes a formal ontological model for interpreting historical and narrative phenomena, detached from conventional ethical or teleological judgments. The core thesis is that any historical event, as a concretized response to the specific structural tensions (termed Historical Necessity-conditions) of its moment, achieves a state of logical closure—a complete, necessary, and self-sufficient actualization within its own causal framework. This closure constitutes its ontological perfection, requiring no external validation. The Arthurian legend is analyzed as an illustrative narrative field to demonstrate the triadic logic of Necessity-condition → Actualization → Logical Closure. The model aims not to moralize history, but to describe the internal necessity of its occurrence.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Beyond Teleology and Morality</p> <p>Historical and narrative interpretation has long been dominated by teleological (seeking an ultimate purpose) and moral (judging good/evil) frameworks. This paper argues for a purely descriptive, ontological approach. We ask: can we understand the facticity of a historical moment—the simple fact that it did happen in the way it did—as a logically necessary outcome, independent of our retrospective judgments of success or failure, justice or injustice?</p> <p>We introduce the concept of Logical Closure of Historical Actualization. It posits that within a defined historical present, constituted by a unique configuration of material constraints, social structures, and conscious apprehensions (collectively, Historical Necessity-conditions), a range of possible responses exist. The event that does occur is the one that most fully actualizes these conditions, thereby achieving a state of logical completeness or closure. This is not a value term but a structural one, akin to a mathematical solution satisfying all given parameters.</p> <p>The Arthurian legend, with its rich tapestry of founding, glory, betrayal, and collapse, serves as an ideal narrative laboratory to test this model, free from the complexities of factual historiography.</p> <p>2. Theoretical Framework: Key Concepts</p> <p>2.1 Historical Necessity-condition (HNC): The specific, constitutive gap or tension within a historical moment. It is not a teleological pull but an objective problematic formed by the intersection of material limits, power dynamics, and the self-consciousness of agents who perceive and define these gaps (e.g., the need for order post-chaos, the tension between personal passion and institutional code).</p> <p>2.2 Actualization: The concrete phenomenon (action, institution, conflict) that emerges as the necessary response to and fulfillment of an HNC. Actualization is the process of the HNC becoming historically manifest.</p> <p>2.3 Logical Closure: The state achieved upon the completion of an Actualization. It denotes the exhaustive and necessary relationship between a given HNC and its specific Actualization. The event is "closed" in the sense that it resolves (for that moment) the tension that precipitated it. Closure is synonymous with ontological completeness, not ethical approval.</p> <p>3. Analysis: The Arthurian Narrative as a Sequence of Logical Closures</p> <p>3.1 The Founding of Camelot: HNC = the societal need for a unifying ideal and stable order after period of fragmentation. Actualization = Arthur's kingship and the Round Table. Closure: The establishment perfectly satisfies the HNC, creating a symbolic and political center.</p> <p>3.2 Lancelot and Guinevere's Adultery: HNC = the inherent, unsustainable tension between the hyper-idealized code of chivalry/courtly love and human affective reality. Actualization = the betrayal. Closure: The act necessarily manifests and exposes this systemic contradiction, making it historically visible and operative.</p> <p>3.3 Mordred's Usurpation: HNC = the accumulated systemic entropy, the need for the symbolic paternal authority (Arthur) to be negated for a new (if undefined) order to be conceivable. Actualization = the rebellion. Closure: It performs the necessary function of dismantling the existing, now exhausted, logical structure.</p> <p>3.4 The Battle of Camlann: HNC = the final, irreconcilable clash between the old, closing actualization (Arthur's order) and the new, emergent one (chaos awaiting new form). Actualization = the mutual destruction. Closure: It is the perfect, ritualized performance of the transition between two states of closure.</p> <p>4. Arthur as the Conscious Bearer of Closure</p> <p>Arthur's tragic grandeur lies in his progressive embodiment of this logic.</p> <p>4.1 As Primary Actualizer: He is the initial Actualization of the primary HNC (need for order).</p> <p>4.2 As Witness to Iteration: He does not morally judge subsequent actualizations (betrayal, war) but increasingly perceives them as the necessary unfolding of new HNCs arising from within his own creation.</p> <p>4.3 His Fate as Ultimate Closure: His death is not a failure but the final, perfect act of closure for his own archetype. It actualizes the HNC that his symbolic order must be transcended.</p> <p>5. Discussion: Implications and Boundaries</p> <p>5.1 Distinguishing Ontology from Ethics: The model is strictly ontological. It describes why and how things happened as they did. It is silent on whether they should have happened or were good. Ethical judgment operates on a separate, axiological plane, responding to new HNCs (e.g., modern human rights).</p> <p>5.2 Relation to Historical Materialism: The framework incorporates but expands materialist analysis. HNCs include material conditions, but crucially are defined and apprehended through human self-consciousness. Productive forces are a major form of Actualization, not the sole source of HNCs.</p> <p>5.3 The Role of Contingency: Individual agency and chance events are the specific forms through which general HNCs are actualized. The necessity lies in the fact that some actualization fulfilling the HNC will occur; the contingency lies in its precise character (Lancelot, not another, commits the betrayal).</p> <p>5.4 Defense Against Misreading: To be clear, stating that the Holocaust achieved a form of "logical closure" within the twisted HNC of Nazi ideology (need for scapegoat, total war mobilization) is a horrific but structurally accurate description. This in no way diminishes its ethical monstrosity, which is judged from our contemporary HNC grounded in universal human dignity. The model explains its occurrence, not its justification.</p> <p>6. Conclusion</p> <p>The Arthurian legend, read through this model, ceases to be a moral fable and becomes a metaphysical drama of historical logic. It reveals a process where every event, from foundation to collapse, is a necessary link in a chain of actualizations, each achieving a state of logical closure relative to its historical moment. This perspective invites a form of historical understanding that brackets our immediate value reactions to contemplate the stark architecture of necessity that underlies narrative and history alike. King Arthur emerges not as a failed hero, but as the conscious embodiment of the very principle that all actualizations, including his own end, are ultimately complete.</p> <p>suimingjie</p> <p> </p> <p>suimingjie1@outlook</p>