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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]

One of the most important activities of Roman classical jurists was giving concretion to the bonum et aequum in any particular case. This is the sense in which could be interpreted the words of Pomponio, when he says quod non potest ius, nisi constare if aliquis peritus, per quem in melius producing cottidie possit (D. 1.2.2.13 [Pomp. enchir. sing.]). Roman jurists, reasoning based on principles such as equity and fides, sought to resolve specific problems. That way, he was refining law every day. Many of these solutions, with time, became rules of law, whose form of creation should be analyzed. [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]

The goal of this article is to clarify the onto-logical character--that is, more logical than strictly metaphysical--of every categorial investigation. This character is evidenced by the fact that the categorial approach to reality leaves aside time and, gives a non-unitary vision of beings as compounds. On the basis of this, we analyze the arguments that take facts to be the fundamental category of the world, and arrive at the conclusion that this kind of entity cannot be ontologically primary, inasmuch as it constitutes an approach to being from the perspective of thought and, therefore, it does not have an existence that is independent from consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, which departs from Spinoza's philosophy, the conditions that are necessary to establish a just order in address a political community. How to relate politics and law?, how to conceive and develop the political-juridical structure? In the origin of the modern European State both models are present: authoritarian and democratic models. It is possible this finding simplify, the origin of the authoritarian model in the Leviathan or State hobbesiano and that of the democratic models in the State spinozista. The author of this article will to analyze the man and the State Spinozian; to come closer the conception of the law of the Dutch philosopher and to present as a logical unit the Spinoza's philosophy of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The autnor develops some ideas on the starting point of Philosophy of Law, with reference to the juridical experience, the analysis of language in law, and the analogic character of the main notions of this subject. After that, the author makes a strong criticism about the reductionist proposals in Philosophy of Law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]