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To better understand the role of affections in the human act, it is necessary to review the teaching of Saint Thomas and his analogical meaning of love. In this way, an integration of the Aristotelian basis that distinguishes human potentialities from that of Dionysian focused more on the unitive aspect of love can be verified. From here, the affective essential mediation of love in all human acts as an integration of the natural inclination and the intentionality proper to the practical reason is established. This is the authentic content of the S Th., I-II, q 28, a. 6, which entails a decisive importance in understanding the moral value of human acts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present study, the metaphysical-theological thought of Erich Przywara (1889-1972) is analyzed in order to bring to light his vision of the supernatural end of man. Przywara, focusing on the concept of "analogia entis" as a key to understand the relationship between the creature and the Creator, also considers other terms, among which "potentia oboedientialis" is the most important. In the article, the exact meaning of the term is deciphered in order to show that the theological anthropology of Przywara constitutes an original and interesting contribution to the debate on the supernatural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study tries to illuminate the anticipation of human being as finite spirit through the Infinite Spirit, which emerges from the work Potenz und Akt of Edith Stein. The author may not be easily understood. Hence, an in-depth reading of the original text will be carried out, along with a fine organization of Stein's central ideas as a response to the question that emerges from the initial approach to the notion of spirit in her work: how is human being, as a finite spirit in the world, anticipated by the Infinite Spirit, in a way that the finite is glimpsed in the infinite? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]