Rosmini Studies

Introduzione

La Redazione — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Morale e diritto nella filosofia di A. Rosmini di Fabio Luzzatto

Michele Nicoletti, Fabio Luzzatto — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this essay, Fabio Luzzatto offers a peculiar reading of Rosmini’s Filosofia del Diritto, discussing its theoretical contents and emphasising its high moral and civil value.

Introduzione

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Ontology and Metaphysics in Vittorio Mathieu's Thought

Gregorio Fracchia — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Vittorio Mathieu’s ontology was developed in his last work, which bears the title Trattato di ontologia (Treatise of Ontology). The work, which seamlessly continues the previous writings, can be seen as the conclusive systematization of Mathieu’s thought. The present paper summarizes the main contents of Mathieu’s theoretical proposal, analyzing them from the perspective of neoclassical philosophy. Through the comparison of the positions of Gustavo Bontadini and Emanuele Severino, it is shown that phenomenological metaphysics cannot be considered as stable knowledge. Finally, it is suggested to keep Mathieu’s results, but rejecting his opposition to classical metaphysics and, in particular, to the ontological valence of the non-contradiction principle.

Joseph Ratzinger interprete di Agostino d’Ippona. Uno studio di Volk und Haus Gottes in Augustins Lehre von der Kirche (1954)

Gabriele Palasciano — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The work Volk und Haus Gottes in Augustins Lehre von der Kirche was written by Joseph Ratzinger, under the direction of Professor Gottlieb Söhngen, during the academic year 1950-1951 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Munich, as a result of his taking part in an academic theological competition. Acknowledged as a doctoral dissertation (1951), then published as a book (1954), it later became part of the inaugural volume of Joseph Ratzinger Gesammelte Schriften (2011), also containing other essays on patristic topics. The article examines the historical and systematic-theological research carried out by Ratzinger, which is supposed to clarify the specificity of Augustine of Hippo’s ecclesiology. It shows the most relevant aspects of his investigation, identifying two main methodological trajectories, namely “historicization” and “actualization”, which are fundamental to Ratzinger’s hermeneutics of both Augustine and the history of Christian theological thought.

Giorgio Agamben als Leser Franz C. Overbecks

Luca Pellarin — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The thought of the German theologian Franz C. Overbeck (1837-1905) has not been well received, and yet not so much in terms of quality but of quantity. Despite the theoretical value of his œuvre, Overbeck’s name still remains mysterious, if not obscure. Nevertheless, one can come across it in the work of Giorgio Agamben (1942). Such a circumstance cannot surprise those familiar with the Italian philosopher, who often draws on even little-known authors from the most diverse disciplines. After paying the necessary attention to Agamben as a reader in general, and as a reader of theology in particular, the present paper will assess his references to Overbeck, concluding that the Italian philosopher’s appeal to the German theologian, however spare, limited, and “unaware”, does not fail to strike a chord, especially as regards the interpretation of Overbeck’s notion of “Urgeschichte”.

Introduzione

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Rosmini, Newman e il “Catholic Revival” nell’Inghilterra vittoriana

Andrea Vitali — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The author tries to illustrate the influences and contact points that, on a historical level, existed between the Rosminian Fathers and the main representatives of the Anglican Oxford Movement in the years of the “re-Catholicisation” of Victorian England (1837-1901), with a particular attention to the events and protagonists who characterized the phenomenon of the so-called British “Catholic Revival”.

Introduzione

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Ad mentem Enrici: la recezione seicentesca della dimostrazione dell’esistenza di Dio di Enrico di Gand

Igor Agostini — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article studies the reception by seventeenth-century Scholasticism of Henry of Ghent’s reflection on the existence of God. It analyses authors who explicitly declare themselves to be followers of Henry. This attests the existence of a seventeenth-century Henrician Scholasticism. The history of the reception of Henry’s reflection by this Henrician Scholasticism is, however, also the history of a non-reception of the a priori proof of God’s existence formulated by Henry himself.

Rosmini e la Seconda Scolastica. Osservazioni introduttive

Gian Pietro Soliani — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article is a brief introduction aimed to give impulse to a broader research project on Rosmini and Second Scholasticism. Rosmini considers the 13th century as the Golden Age of Scholasticism, but he also observes a decline of Scholasticism which began roughly with the 14th century and ended with the Enlightenment. However, he stresses some positive aspects of the 17th century Scholasticism in several areas of philosophy and theology. Furthermore, he also pays attention to the 18th century Scholasticism, a hybrid form of scholastic thought deeply influenced by early modern philosophers. Finally, the article suggests a working hypothesis to investigate the early modern scholastic sources of Rosmini’s thought.

Introduzione

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I miracoli nella filosofia di John Locke

Claudio Tugnoli — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The distinction between “above Reason” and “contrary to Reason” is already acquired when Locke makes it his own, taking for granted that it would be the ruin of humanity if we were to reject as contrary to reason everything that we are not able to ascertain exclusively through reason. In fact, what remains inaccessible to our intellect is not necessarily contrary to reason. Therefore, without falling into irrationalist fideism, we must admit that something is true despite its incomprehensibility. Boyle’s exegetical and theological research is a prelude to that of Locke: both appear far from the two extremes of fideism and rationalism, of unconditional obedience to authority and deism. It is not possible to fully understand Locke’s position on miracles without considering his theory of knowledge and the role that sensation plays in it. Miracles, with which God communicates something extraordinary to humans, are sensible facts, which we become aware of in the same way in which we perceive facts of common experience. If God intends to convey some truth to humans, he has two alternatives: either he provides proof of this truth through the exercise of natural reason, on human initiative, or he communicates his will that assent be given by his authority. In this second case, he must inspire in us the persuasion that the revealed proposition comes from him through some sign or proof that does not deceive. The testimony we need is an external sign, which unequivocally convinces us of the divine provenance of certain revelations. These external signs, which convince reason, are miracles. Scripture is revelation in accordance with reason, because it contains the extraordinary signs of the divine origin of the messages and prescriptions reported therein. However, the miracles to which Locke attributes the function of validating revelation are, in turn, validated solely by Scripture: it is easy to recognize in them a petitio principii or circular argument.

Dalla critica ai miracoli all’amore come “miracolo”: una prospettiva negli Scritti giovanili di Hegel

Marco Moschini — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Following the interpretation of Edoardo Mirri, the editor of the Italian edition of Hegel’s Early Writings, the present paper proposes a hermeneutic line of Hegel’s approach to religion. Focusing on some theoretical and interpretive issues that emerge from the early Hegelian writings devoted to the account of Jesus’ life and his miracles, it offers a special opportunity to place this critique within the upheaval of Kantianism after Bern. The driving element of the dialectical dynamic will be grasped, precisely, in the religious dimension and in Christian faith. Understanding the “fated” character of love in Christianity will help us to understand the maturation, in Hegel’s Frankfurt period, of the role he proposes for religion in the philosophy of Spirit.

Dove il Soprannaturale si intesse nella trama della Natura. Il miracolo in Rosmini

Alberto Peratoner — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The reflections Rosmini dedicates to miracle are rare and widely disseminated in his works. Even in the absence of a systematic and dedicated discussion, accurate lines of a Miracle Theology can be detected, which can be reconstructed through numerous textual loci (above all in the Epistolary). What emerges is a conception, elaborated under the sign of a supreme prudence and in compliance with the balances of the divine economy of the world government and of grace, of the dense interweaving of the relations between Nature and the Supernatural and the ordinary and extraordinary occurrence of phenomena where Rosmini guarantees a transversal space to miracle, admitting its possibility in both the natural and supernatural order.

Wittgenstein on miracles

Luigi Perissinotto — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this essay, three passages are illustrated and analysed in which Wittgenstein discusses the theme or question of the miracle: a passage from the Notebooks 1914-1916; a longer and more articulate passage from the Lecture on Ethics; finally, a diary entry published under the title Movements of Thought. The aim of the present contribution is to understand the significance of these references to miracles, that Wittgenstein makes at different stages and moments of his philosophy, and to show that what Wittgenstein says about miracles and the miraculous is closely linked to his way of seeing and practising philosophy – as distinct from science and its causal explanations.

Il miracolo nella proposta di Jean-Luc Marion

Francesca Peruzzotti — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology, the miracle is not characterised by rarity and exceptionality, but rather presents the same dynamic as the event and the saturated phenomenon in their revelatory aspect. The miracle is rooted in the relationship between (im)possibility and actuality, thus prompting a reconsideration of the question of the relationship between phenomenology and theology, as well as the verification of the weight of finite singularity in the work of the French philosopher.

Introduzione

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Dai vaghi concubiti ai matrimoni certi: uno sguardo su Vico e Rosmini

Francesca Fidelibus — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Scopo del saggio è quello di indagare l'istituzione matrimoniale nelle opere di Giambattista Vico e Antonio Rosmini. Entrambi gli autori, infatti, ricavano lezioni universali dall'investigazione di società storiche particolari. Anche il matrimonio, istituto storicamente diversificato, assume in entrambi un universale valore etico-giuridico cui si affianca la funzione che la famgilia svolge rispetto alla costituzione dell'ordine civile sullo sfondo del ruolo propulsivodel conflitto.

Far divenire pazzo l'essere

Salvatore Carannante — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article aims to outline some of the fundamental junctures of the close polemical confrontation Antonio Rosmini engaged in with Hegel’s philosophy; more specifically, the paper will deal with the peculiar categories used by Rosmini to polemically describe idealism, such as “madness”, “dream”, “imagination”, “fantasy”, “enchantment”, “delirium” and “absurdity”. Thus, new light will be shed on a relevant, but often neglected chapter in the history of the Italian, but also European, anti-Hegelism.

Filosofia di Rosmini e pensiero dell'arte astratta in Carlo Belli

Cosimo Colazzo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As a theorist of abstract art in Italy between 1920-1930, Carlo Belli takes as reference points the early Twentieth century avant-garde and that intellectual training ground for new ideas which was represented by the unique Italian phenomenon of the “Riviste”. The present paper explores Belli’s unexpected combination between Bergson’s anti-positivism and Rosmini’s platonic thought, which combine in his investigation on Abstract Art and Rational Architecture.

L' ispirazione rosminiana nell’elaborazione del concetto di somaticità in Moretti-Costanzi

Martino Bozza — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The path of Theodoric Moretti-Costanzi's thought reveals an evident intention: to reach the foundation that explains the reality that surrounds man by going beyond any gnoseologist perspective. In this approach, Antonio Rosmini appears as a constant and significant presence, capable of inspiring this path through a consciential vision of reality and through a conception of faith understood as a sapiential capacity to read reality in its ontological depth.

Veni lumen cordis. La philosophia cordis rosminiana ed i trapianti di cuore

Chiara Legnaro — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores the convergence between Rosminian philosophy and “post-transplant phenomena”, episodes in which recipient patients seem to display post-transplant memories, emotions and behavioral traits that could be traced back to those of the donor. The research contributes to a new view of the heart and identity in Rosminian ontology, investigating through the “doctrine of the three forms of being” the true “synthesis” function of the central organ as a meeting point between matter and spirit, finite and infinite, and donor and recipient.

Rosmini e la filosofia italiana del Novecento

Omar brino — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The articles of the first decade of “Rosmini Studies” address the twentieth-century reception of Rosmini in a plural way, in the belief that the texts of the (more or less recent) philosophical history, including Rosmini and his reception, should not remain a banner or a laughing stock for this or that party, but a heritage to be discussed critically by everyone. Consequently, from the theoretical side, it is precisely by crossing different points of view that, in these articles, some aspects emerge which, beyond the basic choices on which they were evaluated, represent transversal contents of Rosmini’s thought. An example of this is the reiterated centrality of the infinite being – i.e., of a being in relation to which the interiority of each finite finds its own most significant place, in a perspective that is both cognitive and moral, and, in a not secondary sense, is “charitable” towards all other finites (with such charitable sense of each finite towards other finites being founded and oriented in the charitable being of the infinite itself).

I periodici di cultura, la «Rivista Rosminiana» e la pedagogia cattolica del primo Novecento

Andrea Marrone — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article presents methods and contents of the book entitled Between Herbartians and Neoidealists. Pedagogy in the Catholic journals of the early 20th century. The essay focuses on the role of the journals in the pedagogical debate in the Giolitti era, but also on their function in the field of educational historiography. An important part of the present discussion is dedicated to the role of Rosminian pedagogy and its presence in the four periodicals studied, especially in the «Rivista Rosminiana».

Introduzione

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Libertà e infinito in Antonio Rosmini

Paolo Pagani — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In his Lectio, Pagani moves towards an ontological foundation of human freedom. In his opinion, Rosmini’s notion of freedom cannot be understood if not by starting from the “initial being”, that is, that initial or original being that is the form of our mind, of our desire and of our humanity as a whole. This initial being is virtually infinite, but the human being by participating in it, can (in turn) participate in the infinity that pertains to it. This can happen in three ways, that correspond respectively to three fundamental ontological “forms”: the real, the ideal and the moral one. Rosmini, therefore, roots freedom in the intuition of being – that initial being that gives form to the human person. Thanks to the intuition of being, the human being embraces – in the ontological horizon, precisely – every reality, including himself; that is, he has the world present to himself, as something relative to that horizon: as something with respect to which he can therefore place himself according to freedom.

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La filosofia italiana: una questione aperta

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Italian Philosophy: an Open Question

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Die italienische Philosophie: eine offene Frage

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La philosophie italienne : une question ouverte

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La filosofía italiana: una cuestión abierta

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