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Pierre Klein, La pérégrination vers l’Occident. De Pékin à Paris, le voyage de deux moines nestoriens au temps de Marco Polo
No full textDas metaphysische „sein“ bei Aristoteles: Kopula oder Existenzverb?
Get PDFSummary: This article aims at further understanding the meaning and function of the verb “to be” in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: does it express mainly or even exclusively existence or is it used as a copula, linking a subject and predicate? Since the birth of Greek literature, the copula-use has been by far the more common, and so it is also with Aristotle. He even provides us with the nucleus of a theory of the copula, which is not the case with existence in the strict philosophical sense. Analyzing Met. V, 7, VI, 4 and VIII, 2, I conclude that wherever Aristotle tries to determine, what, for being as being, it means “to be”, he refers not to existence, but to some concrete being-such, where the verb “being” functions as a copula. So while metaphysical being does also consistently carry an existential force, regarding its syntactic function it is nonetheless copulative through and through.Key Words: metaphysics, being, Aristotle, copula, existence, nothing, being as truth, affirmation, negation, categories, thought, reality.Sommario: Questo articolo pretende cogliere meglio il significato e la funzione del verbo “essere” nella Metafisica di Aristotele: Esso esprime principalmente o perfino esclusivamente l’esistenza, oppure si usa come copula, legando un predicato a un soggetto? Sin dalla nascita della letteratura greca, l’uso copulativo è di gran lunga più comune; e così è pure presso Aristotele. Lui addirittura ci fornisce il nucleo d’una teoria sulla copula, il che non è il caso con l’esistenza nel senso strettamente filosofico. Analizzando Met. V, 8, VI, 4 e VIII, 2, concludo che, ogni qualvolta che Aristotele cerca di determinare, che cosa significa “essere” per l’ente in quanto ente, egli non si riferisce all’esistenza, ma a qualche essere-tale concreto, dove il verbo “essere” funge da copula. Mentre dunque l’essere metafisico possiede pur sempre una certa valenza esistenziale, riguardo la sua funzione sintattica, esso è comunque del tutto copulativo.Parole chiave: metafisica, essere, ente, Aristotele, copula, esistenza, nulla, essere come vero, affermazione, negazione, categorie, pensiero, realtà
La metafisica nell’ottica di Edith Stein: interdisciplinarità e transdisciplinarità del metodo teologico
Get PDFSummary: The study analyses ‘Steinian’ anthropology from an inter-disciplinary and from a trans-disciplinary perspective, showing how philosophy and theology can describe the human person by means of the relationship with the personal being of God, which makes it possible to understand not only the person’s physical, psychological and spiritual characteristics, but also their interior dynamism, their being, their metaphysical reality and their dignity as imago Dei. In the revelation of the person-being of God, which is originary and determinative for the personal being of the human being, there is revealed, in fact, their being a person who is free, spiritual, individual, rational and autonomous because created in his image and likeness. The inter-disciplinary reflection of Edith Stein, from this perspective, investigates the unity of the human being and their multi-dimensional reality in relation to the being of God as one and three, but also in relation to their own creaturely reality, founded upon the mystery of Christ, whose redemptive sacrifice restores to the human being who has fallen through original sin their original dignity and enables the human being to realise their vocation of love in tis fulness, as self-possession and as self-gift, towards God, towards others and towards creation
Arianna Fermani, Senza la speranza è impossibile trovare l’insperato. La speranza “antica”, tra páthos e areté
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Faith and Science: The Case of Human Ecology
Get PDFSummary: The concept of human ecology was introduced into Catholic pastoral documents by John Paul II, in his 1991 encyclical Centesimus annus. As an exquisitely interdisciplinary field of enquiry, human ecology involves a great many scientific, ethical and religious questions. Thus, it can be chosen as an appropriate case study in the dialogue between faith and science. After a review of the ways in which the relationships between faith and science have been addressed, an original model for their interaction is proposed. Then, this new model is tested in the specific case of human ecology, as well as in that of the relationship between the God of the universe and the laws of nature.
Keywords: Faith-science dialogue, human ecology, environmental ethics, conceptual models, natural law.Sommario: Il concetto di ecologia umana è stato introdotto nei documenti pastorali cattolici da Giovanni Paolo II, nella sua enciclica Centesimus annus del 1991. In quanto campo di indagine squisitamente interdisciplinare, l’ecologia umana coinvolge varie questioni scientifiche, etiche e religiose. Quindi può essere preso come un interessante caso di studio nel dialogo tra fede e scienza. Dopo una rassegna delle modalità con cui sono stati affrontati i rapporti tra fede e scienza, viene proposto un modello originale della loro interazione. Successivamente, questo nuovo modello viene messo all’opera nel caso specifico dell’ecologia umana, nonché del rapporto tra il Dio dell’universo e le leggi della natura.
Parole chiave: Dialogo fede-scienza, ecologia umana, etica ambientale, modelli concettuali, legge naturale
