Una spiritualità della giustizia e dell’amore

Nota sulle “Massime di perfezione” di Rosmini

Abstract

Rosmini’s six Massime di perfezione cristiana find in the ideal of the caritas, love, the quintessence of every human effort to be perfect as God is perfect. The first three Massime are devoted to the goals, the second three to the means. The way in which the Christian can please God is found in the notion of justice. In this way Rosmini reveals himself to be in all respects a Platonist-Augustinian thinker, because Augustine (and in its footsteps Anselm of Canterbury) has unfailingly identified the rectitudo with the caritas: in fact, according to the biblical and evangelical teaching of the Ancient and New Covenant, the authentic justice overlaps, in the last instance, with God’s truth, love and faithfulness.