From the nature of the mind to personal dignity
Subtitle: the significance of Rosmini's philosophy
By: Juan F. Franck.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780813214382
Subjects: Rosmini, Antonio, 1797-1855
Description: "This book is the first philosophical study in English devoted to Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855) for over a century. Until recently, the Italian philosopher had been overlooked or seen as tainted with idealism. The fact that he had entertained a serious dialogue with modern thinkers, partly adopting their language and methodology, prevented many from seeing his grounding in classical metaphysics. However, the real meaning of his work is now gradually coming to light as one of the most important achievements of Christian thought of all times."

"In From the Nature of the Mind to Personal Dignity, Juan F. Franck maintains that Rosmini contributes to personalist philosophy with a well-argued answer to the question of why the person possesses the highest dignity in the universe, joining the claim that man is the image of God with rational arguments alone. Although the topic was only tangential in the nineteenth century, Rosmini's works offer cogent proof of the excellence of personal beings.

What Aristotle described as the light of the intellect - the lumen intellectuale for the Scholastics - is brought into play in the epistemological discussion not just to develop an innovative theory of knowledge, but also to account for the constitution of the human mind, as a foundation for ethical principles, and as the starting point of a more comprehensive ontology, where the person is given his due place." "Rosmini links one subject with another, respecting each field at the same time, with a stunning example of an encyclopedic way of thinking. Philosophers aiming at renovation in continuity will also find in him a vigorous model and an unprecedented challenge."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rosmini's life; title: Towards an ontological foundation of personhood; title: The present study; title: The nature of knowledge; title: The problem of knowledge; title: Fundamental difference between sensation and idea; title: Activity and passivity in sense perception; title: The subjective and the extrasubjective in the sensation; title: Sensation and idea compared; title: Analysis of the idea of the thing, the intellective perception; title: The judgment contained in the idea of the thing; title: The idea of existence; title: Characteristics of this idea; title: Innatism of the idea of existence; title: The idea and sensation are primitive elements; title: The idea as a necessary means of knowledge; title: Ideas and reality; title: The idea of being, pure mediator of knowledge; title: The knowledge of existing reality through the idea; title: Kant's a priori synthesis and Rosmini's primitive synthesis; title: Kant, innatism and the lumen intellectuale; title: The idea is one form of being; title: Ideal being is the knowability of real being; title: Ideal being is the possibility of things; title: Note on the possibility and necessity of ideas; title: The idea and the mind; title: The book about the idea in the Teosofia; title: Essere per sè manifesto, manifestato and manifestante; title: Objective mode (or form) of being : absolute and relative existence; title: Absolute and relative existence of ideas and ideal being; title: Intelligibility is an attribute of being itself; title: The intimate bond between the idea and the intelligence; title: Objective being and Plato's parmenides; title: Self-contradictory objects; title: The idea and the dignity of the person; title: Initial being and the place of intelligences in the whole of being; title: Initial being and the lumen intellectuale; title: The divine in nature; title: Individuality and immortality; title: The intelligent will; title: Objective being and ethics; title: The ultimate root of personal dignity.