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The political ideas of Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639) and Pasquale Galluppi (1770 - 1846) were unsuccessful, until they remained, in their times, at the stage of simple enunciations. The two philosophers, if properly revisited – as happened in a recent initiative promoted by the Galluppian Studies Center of Tropea, which finally converged into a collective volume –, sufficiently convince of the existence and philosophical and political relevance of a Southern thought declined, in the two great thinkers, “as well as the Calabrians” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being only an “apostolic letter”, Pope Francis’ Patris corde should be considered not an articulated treatise, but rather as a sort of conceptual framework that can be studied in depth. In this direction, this note intends to deepen some references of the written production of Thomas Aquinas. In particular, Thomas attributes to Joseph a particular role, as occurs, among other things, in the continuous reading of the Gospels of childhood, which magister Thomas carries out, collecting dozens and dozens of opinions from the patristic and scholastic tradition, not without recourse to the ordinary Gloss. The note explores question 27 of the third part of the Summa theologiae, which inaugurates Thoma’s reflection on the acta et passa Christi in his coming into the world. It can be considered the first example of an existential Christology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay examines a recent essay by Luigi Rossi, whose underlying question egards the founding factors of the so-called soft power. It does not focuses so much on the political and military systems, but on values, ideals and ways of life. Such light power, perhaps, is really the last legacy (made above all of the ideas of democracy and of person, therefore also of religion) that Europe, in the wake of Pope Francis, will be able to deliver to change geopolitics in place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the collection L'arte della fede, Antonio Di Nola, professor of Universal Algebra and Logic at the University of Salerno, completes a remarkable poetic trilogy. This Critical Note examines its characteristics and developments in a philosophical-theological key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Which connections between Ethics and Economics. The recent considerations of the Holy See on Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones reiterate not only the Catholic Church's interest in financial and economic problems, but also make it an integral part of the theological-moral doctrine. Christianity believes that it has something to say in fields traditionally considered in some way "separate", if not absolutely alien to the kingdom of God. Based on some recent publications and in dialogue with the positions of Bernard J.F. Lonergan, this critical note focuses on the different terms involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After an opportune contextualization of the oratory work of the Jesuit Robert Bellarmino, this essay publishes for the first time in Italian the sermon n. 34 of the first two years of Bellarmino in Capua (1602-1603). As will be verified directly on the text, the sermon -- of reasonable duration, certainly not short -- is divided into two parts, which are fixed from the beginning, like so many ways or moments to explain the meaning of the chosen biblical verse as the "key" of a sacred text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A recent book by Franco Laviola investigates the works of the Catalan philosopher Carlos Cardona Pescador - born in Tiana (Barcelona) in 1930 and died in Pamplona in 1993 -, whose first idea was precisely the ethical revival of metaphysics and, the second, the metaphysical purpose of ethics. With respect to modern-contemporary ontologists, Cardona wants to get beyond the bounds of purely philosophical reasoning, reaching not only to the limits of the human mind and to the field of general metaphysics, beyond God and beyond the Gods, up to the justification of the meontology. Ultimately, to correlate faith and reason, revelation and philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay deals with the controversy on bioethics of beginning of life within the debate on the heterosexual family, that is considered traditionally the site of the fertility of couple and of the generation of new lives. The conclusions of Charles Darwin’s theory, based on zoological and ornithological observation, now is confirmed by genetic means: the natural selection through gradual changes, produced the enormous diversity of life from an simple ancestor. The author believes that – even in the postmodern form of acceleration of the evolution of species, derived from the contemporary applications of science and technology to the production, management and treatment of human embryos –, the background node still remains that of the validity/non-validity of evolution’s theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]