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1903–1990 Italy
Gustavo Bontadini (1903 – 1990) was an Italian and Roman Catholic philosopher, writer, and university professor.
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All disciplines have being as their ultimate material object; but it must be said that metaphysics has it as its formal object.
Between being and nothingness there is no middle ground.
Philosophy and metaphysics are notorious because of the endless disputes that have always devastated them.
A generic humanitarian sentiment can lead to peace as well as war, to oppression as well as freedom, to violence as well as resignation.
If it fails in this commitment to penetrate the human, to spread socially, philosophy has missed the opportunity offered to it by the times.
Educators must know how to measure the weight of what they promote.
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?
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.
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.
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.