Frasi di Étienne Gilson

Étienne Gilson è stato un filosofo e storico della filosofia francese di ispirazione cattolica. Assieme a Jacques Maritain e Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange è considerato fra i massimi esponenti del neotomismo. Wikipedia

✵ 13. Giugno 1884 – 19. Settembre 1978

Étienne Gilson: 30 citazioni1 Mi piace

Étienne Gilson frasi celebri

“Molti mi hanno attaccato attraverso Blondel, che non contento di sbagliarsi, si erige a Padre della Chiesa e a Grande Inquisitore.”

Étienne Gilson

“Chesterton è stato uno dei pensatori più profondi che siano mai esistiti.”

Étienne Gilson

citato in Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Il pugnale alato e altri racconti, BUR, a cura di Stefano del Magno e Davide Rondoni, introduzione di Stratford Caldecott, p. IV

“Ciascuno deve accettarsi come Dio l'ha fatto, e nessuna persona è senza valore.”

Étienne Gilson

da una lettera a Jacques Maritain, 29 gennaio 1953
Origine: Citato in Piero Viotto, Grandi amicizie: i Maritain e i loro contemporanei, Città Nuova, Roma 2008.

“È dal Medioevo che escono direttamente le dottrine filosofiche e scientifiche sotto le quali si pretende di subissarlo.”

Étienne Gilson

da La filosofia nel Medioevo, La Nuova Italia, 1990

“Il solo fatto che tanti uomini credano ancora utile fare professione di ateismo e giustificare la loro incredulità con argomenti quali, ad esempio, l'esistenza del male, lascia abbastanza vedere che la questione rimane ancora viva. Se la morte di Dio significa la sua morte finale e definitiva nello spirito degli uomini, la vitalità persistente dell'ateismo costituisce per l'ateismo stesso la sua più seria difficoltà. Dio sarà morto negli spiriti solo quando nessuno penserà più a negare la sua esistenza. Nell'attesa che l'ateismo finisca con lui, la morte di Dio rimane un rumore che aspetta ancora conferma.”

Étienne Gilson

da L'ateismo difficile

“Nessuno può cadere vittima del proprio genio senza averne; ma quelli che non ne hanno sono pienamente giustificati nel rifiutarsi di rimanere vittime del genio altrui.”

Étienne Gilson

da The Unity of Philosophical Experience, Sheed and Ward, Londra 1938

“Per lui [Duns Scoto], Enrico di Gand era più importante di Tommaso d'Aquino; per noi, e in sé, è vero il contrario.”

Étienne Gilson

citato in Olivier Boulnois, Duns Scoto: il rigore della carità, p. 18, traduzione di Costante Marabelli, Jaca Book, Milano 1999

“Senza la filosofia greca il Vangelo non avrebbe prodotto filosofia tra i cristiani, come la Bibbia non l'aveva prodotta tra gli ebrei. Come vi esprimete voi la "filosofia cristiana" è la "filosofia" nel suo "stato cristiano."”

Étienne Gilson

da una lettera a Jacques Maritain, 21 aprile 1931

Étienne Gilson: Frasi in inglese

“While Descartes finds being in thought, Saint Thomas finds thought in being.”

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Methodical Realism

“We can only choose between two kinds of life, the active and the contemplative.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“Having left us with thought (not a soul), and extension (not a body), [Descartes] does not know how to account for the union of soul and body.”

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Methodical Realism

“What is most apparent and constant in Thomas' personality, the image he most likely had of himself, is the teacher. The saint was essentially a Doctor of the Church; the man was a teacher of theology and philosophy; the mystic never entirely separated his meditations from his teaching, which drew its inspiration from them.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“What, then, will this philosophy be? Thomas only employed it for the service it renders Christian wisdom. No doubt this is why he never thought of separating it from this wisdom and giving it a name. He probably did not foresee that the day would come when people would go through his works to extract the elements of a philosophy from his theology. He himself never attempted this synthesis.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a philosopher and adopting an idealist method are one and the same thing.”

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Methodical Realism

“The scientific sterility of the Middle Ages has to be condemned for the same reasons which make it necessary today to condemn the philosophic sterility of scientism.”

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Methodical Realism

“Thomas considers that a religious may legitimately aspire to the title and functions of master, but since he could only teach divine things, it is only in relation to the science of divine things that secular sciences can legitimately interest him. This is demanded by the very essence of the contemplative life, the teaching of which is nothing but its immediate extension into the order of the active life.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object.”

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Methodical Realism

“With Descartes the Cogito ergo sum [I think, therefore I am] turns into Cogito ergo res sunt</i”

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I think, therefore things are
Methodical Realism

“Indeed, all idealism derives from Descartes, or from Kant, or from both together, and whatever other distinguishing features a system may have, it is idealist to the extent that, either in itself, or as far as we are concerned, it makes knowing the condition of being.”

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Methodical Realism

“Having expelled quality from the field of extension, [idealists] do not know how to account for it when it reappears in thought.”

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Methodical Realism

“Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality."”

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Methodical Realism

“Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being.”

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Methodical Realism

“If there is something more in a living being than a pure mechanism, Descartes is bound in advance to miss it.”

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Methodical Realism

“The mathematician always proceeds from thought to being or things. Consequently, critical idealism was born the day Descartes decided that the mathematical method must henceforth be the method for metaphysics.”

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Methodical Realism

“The realist method starts with the whole in order to distinguish the parts.”

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Methodical Realism

“If there is a single initial error at the root of all the difficulties philosophy is involved in, it can only be the one Descartes committed when he decreed, a priori, that the method of one of the sciences of reality was valid for the whole of reality.</i”

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Methodical Realism

“Hume's skepticism, therefore, descends in a direct line from Cartesian mathematicism.”

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Methodical Realism

“Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms”

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Methodical Realism

“All realism derives from the analysis of knowledge; all idealism derives from the analysis of a thought.”

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Methodical Realism

“I maintain, therefore, that just as there is in Cartesianism a methodical idealism, the kind that starts with nosse [knowing], there can be a methodical realism, the kind that starts with esse”

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being
Methodical Realism

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