Claudio Cirinei, PhD in philosophy, is a high school teacher and has self-produced and distributed this interesting and easy volume, in the format of a pantry, through Amazon. The content is concise and valuable.
Dieu. “Celui qui est” (De Deo ut Uno) is a volume, broad from every point of view, written by the Dominican father Serge-Thomas Bonino, currently dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of San Tommaso in Rome, President of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas and Secretary of the International Theological Commission.
Julian Baggini is a British journalist and philosopher of Italian origin, quite famous in the United Kingdom, also dedicated to the dissemination of atheistic issues. In this small volume, originally published by Oxford University Press in 2003, he engages in a basic presentation of what atheism is.
The book by Ardian Ndreca, full professor in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Urbanian University, is part of the series “Paths of urban theology”, edited by Armando Matteo and programmatically inspired by the indication of Pope Francis “It is necessary to arrive where new stories and paradigms are formed, reaching with the Word of Jesus the deepest nuclei of the soul of the cities ”(Evangelii Gaudium, n. 74).
Massimo Borghesi is one of the most authoritative Italian interpreters of the “modern”, to whom he has dedicated numerous studies, focusing in particular on the thought of Romano Guardini and Augusto del Noce.
The reflection on the meaning of the term “nature” is particularly important in the context of knowledge on natural beings and this topic maintains a distinctive relevance to the present day.
This contribution only attempts to clarify the meaning of the term nature in the works of Thomas Aquinas, and to particularly explain the two fundamental meanings proposed in the Summa Theologiae: nature as essence and nature as a whole of material things. It will then seek to analyse how Aquinas describes the presence of phenomenon as it happens by chance within the context of the natural order. This also serves as an illustration of the usefulness of a correct comprehension of what natural can mean
This study analyzes the notion of order in Thomas Aquinas’ texts. The natural order is different from the mathematical one, and is related to contingency, multiplicity, graduality. Such a notion of order is not in contradiction with the reality of chance, but confirms it. In fact, chance is perceivable since it is a lower degree of order. If it were total disorder, chance could not be perceived.
Chance can only be explained in theological perspective. For St. Thomas, Providence requires chance. For God nothing is casual, but for human beings chance is the space of human freedom and God’s gifts.
