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Una visión del anhelo de infinito del ser humano como un modo de manifestación de Dios en el hombre a partir de las categorías empleadas por el teólogo italiano Luigi Giussani. Con este haremos un recorrido relativamente amplio por el... more

Una visión del anhelo de infinito del ser humano como un modo de manifestación de Dios en el hombre a partir de las categorías empleadas por el teólogo italiano Luigi Giussani. Con este haremos un recorrido relativamente amplio por el itinerario del sentido religioso en el hombre. También será oportuno establecer un nexo entre el pensamiento del autor y algunas manifestaciones culturales que son especialmente cercanas al hombre moderno, para mostrar cómo la dinámica del deseo es algo intrínseco al ser humano. Necesariamente, el punto de llegada ha de ser el carácter paradójico, y por eso dramático, del deseo del hombre: más grande que él mismo pero al mismo tiempo inalcanzable por sus propias fuerzas, mostrando en ese punto que la nostalgia de la que queremos hablar es debida a esta desproporción. Y esta desproporción es justamente una manifestación del Infinito.

The article discusses the influential conceptualization of religious sense of the Italian theologian and founder of the Comunione e Liberazione movement Luigi Giussani. It particularly focuses on the possibility of its fulfilment in the... more

The article discusses the influential conceptualization of religious sense of the Italian theologian and founder of the Comunione e Liberazione movement Luigi Giussani. It particularly focuses on the possibility of its fulfilment in the conditions of liberal culture of modernity. In its first part, it analyzes Giussani´s account of religious sense in the connection with basic desires and needs, which constitute the human heart. In the second part, it presents Giussani´s genealogy of religious awareness of the modern man. Despite his scorching criticism of the modern era, he takes the modern emphasis on freedom seriously. In conclusion, the article examines how Giussani transcends the modernity´s tendency to associate freedom exclusively with choice and connects freedom with the satisfaction of our deepest desires. Ultimately, the article shows that despite being critical to the modern ideal of autonomy, Giussani is able to offer an attractive conception of freedom.

In our current “critical” climate, it is essential for educators to recover a positive relationship to the past. In this article, I propose the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Luigi Giussani as models for the rehabilitation of our... more

In our current “critical” climate, it is essential for educators to recover a positive relationship to the past. In this article, I propose the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Luigi Giussani as models for the rehabilitation of our conceptions of authority, tradition, and criticism. I hope to extend Gadamer’s project contra the “Enlightenment prejudice against prejudice” to the role of tradition and authority in education. Further, the article aims to contribute to the philosophy of education literature by introducing the thought of the late Italian theologian and educator Luigi Giussani. Giussani’s The Risk of Education offers a pedagogical model that is remarkably consistent with Gadamerian principles. His work provides a concrete application of Gadamer’s thought, a further rehabilitation of “criticism,” and a more convincing account of how embeddedness in tradition serves to overcome subjectivism.

This review (written in Spanish) offers a description of the plot and background themes of "Manalive" (1912). This novel is essentially a preview of Chesterton's conversion to Christianity or at least a lucid fable about the human... more

This review (written in Spanish) offers a description of the plot and background themes of "Manalive" (1912). This novel is essentially a preview of Chesterton's conversion to Christianity or at least a lucid fable about the human attitude that encourages the conversion, namely, the willingness to live by a creed rather than by routine, the continuous re-discovery of things and a persistent attention to the real so that we never lose sight of the possibility of miracles to happen.

In this essay I will be drawing upon Luigi Giussani’s 'religious sense', Henri De Lubac’s notion of Christian humanism (or rather why he denies the need of a Christian humanism), and their groundings in a sound metaphysics of creation.... more

In this essay I will be drawing upon Luigi Giussani’s 'religious sense', Henri De Lubac’s
notion of Christian humanism (or rather why he denies the need of a Christian humanism), and their groundings in a sound metaphysics of creation. These three aspects of contemporary Christian anthropology give rise to an adequate response to contemporary man’s atheism and can restore man as microcosm. In the first half of the essay I will be setting up the scene for Giussani’s religious sense by giving us insight to the modern project as scripted by Henri De Lubac. After doing so, I will introduce the grounds on which metaphysics can remedy the problem of modernity. I will then give reasons for López’s metaphysics of creation as beingsound and should not end with just the receptivity of being; man as as the microcosm of creation has a freedom and responsibility to reciprocate being.

In this essay, Brett Bertucio evaluates the feasibility of employing what various theorists have termed the " epistemic criterion " in identifying controversies to be taught in the classroom. While sympathetic to the epistemic criterion,... more

In this essay, Brett Bertucio evaluates the feasibility of employing what various theorists have termed the " epistemic criterion " in identifying controversies to be taught in the classroom. While sympathetic to the epistemic criterion, Bertucio argues that at present its application does not help delineate whether more than one reasonable view regarding an issue is plausible. Drawing on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre, he contends that the decline of moral philosophy has reduced contemporary moral utterance to the mere re-statement of incommensurable ideologies. The author concludes by proposing two possible remedies. First, the introduction of intellectual history into secondary social studies curricula may help students and their teachers become aware of the contours of contemporary moral debate and examine their own epistemic assumptions. Second, the thought of the late Italian educator Luigi Giussani may provide a foundation to approach controversial issues based not on incommensurate conceptions of rationality but on existential desires.