Being and Wholeness

Severino-Rosmini: Critique of a Criticism

Abstract

What we have tried to show, with this essay, is that the criticisms addressed to Rosmini by Emanuele Severino (in the essay L’innatismo rosminiano) can actually be addressed to the way in which Severino himself understands the original structure of being. If Severino criticizes the concept of semantic independence for how it is constituted in Rosmini with regard to the concept of “being”, we have tried to show how the concept of a completely finite appearing, in determining what Severino defines “contradiction C”, comes to mean an ‘independent meaning’. That is, as an abstract concept of the abstract.