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04/05/2022

Review: Man's search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl. Man's search for Meaning. A Washington Square Press Publication of POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 ISBN: 0-671-66736-X Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [...]

08/06/2018

Hope in the desert

In the desert, geographical or spiritual, from time to time there are small spaces full of vegetation and water. They are small oases of light, hope and love that allow you to recover your strength and enthusiasm to remain faithful along the way. [...]

03/11/2017

Review: The Science of the Cross

Edith Stein. The Science of the Cross (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 6) Edited by Dr. L. Gelber and Romaeus Leuven, OCD ISBN: 978-0-935216-31-8 To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study [...]

13/10/2017

Unpublished: Alcher de Clairvaux

Anima namque rationalis inter eas res quae sunt a Deo conditae, superat omnia; et Deo proxima est, quando est pura, eique in quantum charitate cohaeserit, in tantum ab eo Iumine illo intelligibili perfusa quodam modo et iIlustrata, non per corporeos oculos, sed per sui ipsius principale, id est, [...]

29/09/2017

Thomism in the xx Century

1. Main characteristics of Neo-Scholasticism We call "neo-scholasticism" that renewal movement of philosophy and theology held in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We must take the term neo-scholastic in a very wide sense because on one hand we can speak of a Muslim or Jewish [...]

14/07/2017

Being, soul and body

The unit of everyone as manifested in very different levels of unity. In the vital level, man is bound to life primarily through their bodies and physical abilities. The psychic level is defined by its "interiority", ie the area of emotion that is irreducible to the purely [...]

01/06/2017

The soul

In the intellectual, own level of human beings, this instinctive circuit is definitely broken as freely choose the means by which the living being is maintained in the world. Classical philosophy called soul to the vital principle is constituted as prime act of being alive and all its powers. Do [...]

04/05/2017

Unity of the person

The denial of the substantial unity of the person could claim from very different positions. It should be recalled, for example, the philosophies of Plato and Philo who admitted the existence of several souls, or psychological phenomenalism in which there is no substance that is identity support [...]

06/04/2017

The formal status of christian philosophy 4

The Church has always sustained that the affirmation of faith doesn’t come from the intrinsic evidence of things. As the I Vatican Council states: Due, precisely, to the common areas that arise at the confluence of subordinated sciences, there are common truths to both orders which [...]

02/03/2017

The formal status of christian philosophy 3

The relation between the Christian theologian and revelation is different from that between the Christian philosopher and the objectivity of his speculative content. While the theologian reflects about the contents of faith by the inner coherence of the Christian misteries and his fidelity to [...]

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