Gustavo Bontadini
Gustavo Bontadini (1903 – 1990) was an Italian and Roman Catholic philosopher, writer, and university professor.
Quotes
[edit]Appunti di filosofia
[edit]- Gustavo Bontadini, Appunti di filosofia, Vita e Pensiero, 1996.
- Philosophy and metaphysics are notorious because of the endless disputes that have always devastated them.
- Could evil, sin, catastrophe, and even drugs be the occasional material that God offers to men so that they can somehow see, feel, and understand him?
- Educators must know how to measure the weight of what they promote.
- [...] philosophy is like the horizon, which can shift here and there, but, as a horizon, is always there.
- Philosophy looks at reality, and is therefore theory, but it looks at it as it relates to the choice of ends and therefore to practical commitment.
- Philosophy, in the great turning point that the history of the human spirit is undergoing today, seems called upon to take responsibility for the new form of humanism that is imposing itself.
- The thirst for knowledge is there, we know this from many signs: everything that can contribute to satisfying it, even if by modest means and to a modest extent, must be considered providential and cultivated with care.
- If it fails in this commitment to penetrate the human, to spread socially, philosophy has missed the opportunity offered to it by the times.
- Between being and nothingness there is no middle ground.
- All disciplines have being as their ultimate material object; but it must be said that metaphysics has it as its formal object.
- A generic humanitarian sentiment can lead to peace as well as war, to oppression as well as freedom, to violence as well as resignation.
Quotes about
[edit]- Cornelio Fabro essentially drew on Thomas Aquinas, while someone like Bontadini was first and foremost a follower of Giovanni Gentile.
- Emanuele Severino, Antonio Gnoli, Vi racconto il mio scontro con la Chiesa Cattolica, repubblica.it, 31 October 2001
- I am the first to recognise this. When I began to develop this way of thinking – but let's go back a long way – I was the first to realise that I should leave that university. Interviewer: However, you never broke off your personal relationship or esteem for your teacher, Gustavo Bontadini? Emanuele Severino: We loved each other, and I still get emotional when I think about it. I remember when he was in his last days... ah, what a dear man... I went to see him in Via Stradella – he lived in Via Stradella, near Corso Buenos Aires – and I said to him: “Maestro, I am Emanuele Severino”. He, who had not opened his eyes for days, gave a start and opened his arms to me. We embraced for a long time. Then he let go of my arms and I left him.
- Emanuele Severino, from Monica Mondo's interview, “'Emanuele Severino guest on ‘Soul domenica’”', 26 May 2019, on Youtube.com (Tv2000it channel), at minute 2:00 and from 9:55 to 10:44.
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