L'Osservatore Romano, June 18, 2010
The sea is not a crystal that you carry in your pocket
Truth freedom and modernity
library is in the volume edited by Wojciech Ireneus Kornzeniowski For a hermeneutic truthful (Roma, Città Nuova, 2010, 440 pages, € 30) which collects a series of studies on the philosophical work of Gaspare Walls. We publish excerpts from the Foreword to the book written by Archbishop president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Gianfranco Ravasi
We would like to freely cast a look at that word that is central to the philosophical system of Gaspare Mura, which is the truth. We do this primarily recalling the calls of the last two Popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but taking into account just the square replete where ordinary people who, without knowledge of Protagoras, he repeated existentially the claim that "man is the measure of all things" in a very brisk and immediate: , there is no absolute truth that precedes us, but it is the individual or group to determine it in concrete situations and changing and according to the interests or benefits contingent. That's what we classify as "subjectivism" or, to use a term dear to Benedict XVI, as "relativism."
The classical approach of the relationship with the truth is, however, was very different. We could make - Always keep this level for the crowd agora daily - with an aphorism of Minima Moralia (1951) Adorno: "The truth is not the" ha ", but there" is ", like happiness." Yeah Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil said: "The truth is not a crystal that you can put in your pocket, but a boundless sea where you dive." The truth is seen, therefore, as an absolute primum that precedes us and to which the research man tents. The reason is inherently need this food for its own operation, as in a highly symbolic reminded the Phaedrus Plato: "The reason that so hard to bring souls to see the Plain of Truth is this: the food suited to the better part of the soul comes from the grass that is there and the nature of the wing with which the soul can fly feeds on just this "(248 bc).
In the Greek philosophical conception
... read more, SRM (courtesy of L'Osservatore Romano )
library is in the volume edited by Wojciech Ireneus Kornzeniowski For a hermeneutic truthful (Roma, Città Nuova, 2010, 440 pages, € 30) which collects a series of studies on the philosophical work of Gaspare Walls. We publish excerpts from the Foreword to the book written by Archbishop president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Gianfranco Ravasi
We would like to freely cast a look at that word that is central to the philosophical system of Gaspare Mura, which is the truth. We do this primarily recalling the calls of the last two Popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but taking into account just the square replete where ordinary people who, without knowledge of Protagoras, he repeated existentially the claim that "man is the measure of all things" in a very brisk and immediate: , there is no absolute truth that precedes us, but it is the individual or group to determine it in concrete situations and changing and according to the interests or benefits contingent. That's what we classify as "subjectivism" or, to use a term dear to Benedict XVI, as "relativism."
The classical approach of the relationship with the truth is, however, was very different. We could make - Always keep this level for the crowd agora daily - with an aphorism of Minima Moralia (1951) Adorno: "The truth is not the" ha ", but there" is ", like happiness." Yeah Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil said: "The truth is not a crystal that you can put in your pocket, but a boundless sea where you dive." The truth is seen, therefore, as an absolute primum that precedes us and to which the research man tents. The reason is inherently need this food for its own operation, as in a highly symbolic reminded the Phaedrus Plato: "The reason that so hard to bring souls to see the Plain of Truth is this: the food suited to the better part of the soul comes from the grass that is there and the nature of the wing with which the soul can fly feeds on just this "(248 bc).
In the Greek philosophical conception
... read more, SRM (courtesy of L'Osservatore Romano )
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