The contribution aims at verifying the possibility to outline some distinctive characteristics of a “baroque” thought (16th-17th centuries), trying nor to reduce it in a weak analogy with the architectural or pictorial style neither labelling it with a too general and vague sense. The author intends to focus some questions raised in the works of some jesuit theologians and philosophers in the period after the Council of Trent, as Roberto Bellarmino and Francisco Suárez. In particular, the relationship between “natural” and “supernatural” will be put forward, getting some distance from both the “lutheran” and the “pelagian” solution. According to Bellarmino we highlight the late- scholastic problem of the constitution of human nature: if it is possible, after the fall due to the original sin, to retrace the original justice and so if the man remains "capax Dei”. Following Suárez’ thought is highlighted the attempt to "institutionalize" the link between nature and supernature, through the circular relationship between metaphysics and theology. On one side, the metaphysics – the scientia transcendens whose object is the supergeneral concept of ens ut sic and the essence of being as aptitudo ad existendum – is the epistemological condition of possibility of theology (intended as natural or philosophical theology); on the other side, the revealed theology is the secret condition of the possibility of the whole metaphysics. Thus, from the interweaving of these problems emerges the "baroque" feature of a philosophical thought, which is at the same time scholastic and early modern.

Suárez, filósofo barroco

Costantino ESPOSITO
2017-01-01

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The contribution aims at verifying the possibility to outline some distinctive characteristics of a “baroque” thought (16th-17th centuries), trying nor to reduce it in a weak analogy with the architectural or pictorial style neither labelling it with a too general and vague sense. The author intends to focus some questions raised in the works of some jesuit theologians and philosophers in the period after the Council of Trent, as Roberto Bellarmino and Francisco Suárez. In particular, the relationship between “natural” and “supernatural” will be put forward, getting some distance from both the “lutheran” and the “pelagian” solution. According to Bellarmino we highlight the late- scholastic problem of the constitution of human nature: if it is possible, after the fall due to the original sin, to retrace the original justice and so if the man remains "capax Dei”. Following Suárez’ thought is highlighted the attempt to "institutionalize" the link between nature and supernature, through the circular relationship between metaphysics and theology. On one side, the metaphysics – the scientia transcendens whose object is the supergeneral concept of ens ut sic and the essence of being as aptitudo ad existendum – is the epistemological condition of possibility of theology (intended as natural or philosophical theology); on the other side, the revealed theology is the secret condition of the possibility of the whole metaphysics. Thus, from the interweaving of these problems emerges the "baroque" feature of a philosophical thought, which is at the same time scholastic and early modern.
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