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    Between «christiana religio» and «gentilium doctrina». Three quaestiones on divine nature by Girolamo Seripando

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    This contribution presents three Quaestiones on the divine nature written by the Augustinian friar Girolamo Seripando between 1528 and 1536, when he was a disciple of Giles of Viterbo. This means that the Quaestiones de natura divina adversus Epicurum, adversus Manichaeum, and adversus Stoicos predate the period of Seripando’s full involvement in the government of the Augustinian order and his participation in the first session of the Council of Trent. The contribution illustrates the historical and philosophical background to Seripando’s youthful writings and identifies some characteristic features of his Christian Platonism, which was inspired by Ficino’s philosophy. The Latin text of the three Quaestiones, contained in MS VIII E 40 of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, is published in the Appendix

    «Un cammino ancora inconsueto. Oscillazione e incertezza nella filosofia della natura di Ernst Bloch

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    From his early years Ernst Bloch adopted a dualistic model of interpreting reality that was inspired by Marcion’s Gnosticism. This model is in no way an obstacle to the elaboration of a philosophy of nature, which will find an initial formulation in the years leading up to the first edition of Geist der Utopie (1918) and will then be constantly developed and perfected until his last great work, Experimentum mundi (1975). This philosophy of nature, without betraying its initial inspiration, will be enriched in the course of time by comparisons with Romantic Naturphilosophie and Hegelian dialectics, the categories of dialectical materialism, the Aristotelian conception of matter, etc. The contribution aims to bring out the special features of Bloch’s conception, according to which the truth of nature is to be found in an as yet unexpressed intensive core that is beyond the physical dimension
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