TEOLOGIČNOST POJMA BITKA U KRITIČKOJ ONTOLOGIJI PANTALEA CARABELLESEA (1877. – 1948.).

The purpose of this article is to present speculative presuppositions of Italian critical ontology, a philosophical movement started by the work of Pantaleo Carabellese in the fi rst half of the 20th century, which is still active primarily at the Italian University in Perugia. Carabellese´s life itself was a proof that authentic philosophical refl ection leads to the affi rmative position on God as the fundamental condition and the basis of human existence that, as such, represents, in his words, »the only true object of philosophical refl ection«. In the fi rst thirty years of the author´s work, starting with the defence of his diploma thesis on Rosmini at the University of Naples in 1907 until the publication of The Theological Problem as Philosophy in 1931, theoretical relevancy of the concept of being as the unique basis of consciousness has been affi rmed. At the same time it has become obvious that a refl ection that, on the basis of its own presuppositions, does not necessarily aims for theological outcomes of its own speculation, cannot not refl ect on God, if it approaches the argument of contemplative nature in an authentic way. The true »object« of philosophical refl ection is, therefore, the theological argument, while philosophy is a true journey towards the metaphysical awareness of God. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]