Cornelio Fabro is among the most important philosophers of the 20th century Known for his profound study of St. Thomas Aquinas, modern thought, and Søren Kierkegaard's metaphysical existentialism.
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Why Cornelio Fabro
The definition of the essence of Thomism
Better than anyone else, Fabro has been able to define the speculative essence of Thomism as the comprehensive overcoming of Aristotelianism and Platonism...
The defense of the main thesis of authentic Thomism
The discovery of the metaphysical notion of participation as the essence of Thomism provided Fabro with the opportunity to show in a new light the extremely important distinction between essentia and actus essendi in its real composition...
The denunciation of the formalist trend among Thomists
Fabro also can be credited for denouncing the formalist downward trend of the Thomistic school, which was increasingly adopting the terminology of its opponents in order to ease the pressure of several controversies...
Dialogue and confrontation with modern thought
The clear definition of the identity of original Thomism as well as a profound comprehension of the Thomistic esse allowed the philosopher to establish a consistent dialogue and confrontation with the sharpest instances of a thought inspired by the modern principle of conscience...
The blame of the atheist root in the principle of immanence
With unequalled dedication Fabro also denounced the intrinsically atheistic value of the principle of conscience, or principle of immanence...
Fabro’s discovery of Kierkegaard
Another important contribution which has to be observed is the valorization of Kierkegaard’s work...
The recovery of the authentic notion of freedom
Fabro himself considered his magnificent speculation about freedom as the last step in the overcoming of formalism and Western rationalism...
The need of a return to metaphysics according to the Magisterium of the Church
Another motive, worthy of merit, comes to us from the Magisterium of the Church with its insistent urge of a return to the real metaphysical instance, to St. Thomas and to his philosophia essendi, as it appears in Fides et ratio...
Fidelity to the Church
Finally, Cornelio Fabro’s work undeniably represents a wonder of the sensus ecclesiae in a time when the greatest praises seem to be directed to those “daring” people who contest the Magisterium of the Church and the voice of the Supreme Pontiff...
Cornelio Fabro's Biographical outline
Father Cornelio Fabro was born on August 24th, 1911 in Flumignano, a small village 18 km from Udine, Italy.
As a small child he suffered from a motor deficiency, which impeded him from speaking and walking. He could understand everything spoken to him, but being unable to speak, he had to express himself through gestures. Read more.
Cornelio Fabro's Philosophical itinerary
There seem to be three fundamental directions of my research, certainly modest (…), to which I have sought to remain faithful during nearly half a century.
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