Issue 103/1 (2022) of the magazine “Gregorianum” is available, quarterly published by the Gregorian University.

ARTICULI

Antoine Ren, S.I., Quels lieux d’Église pour le temps présent? Penser avec Christoph Theobald

Abstract - In a quick survey of the history of the parish, this paper shows how the “civilization of the parish” has declined and why this constitutes a problem of ecclesial identity. The recent document of the Congregation for the Clergy, The pastoral conversion of the Parish community in the service of the evangelizing mission of the Church, calls the parish for reform. In fact, it is the whole Church that should be regenerated by orientating itself towards the mission. With a brief study of the ecclesiology of Christoph Theobald, the paper asserts that, in order to regenerate the Church, it is necessary to create new ecclesial spaces and to make the parish a hospitable space for all, so that all these spaces form a network of missionary communities.

Keywords: parish, pastoral conversion, hospitable space, new ecclesial spaces, mission

 

Valentín Goldie, De sociedad piramidal a koinonía sinodal: el todavía inconcluso proceso de reforma de la Iglesia

Abstract - The present article argues that the Church is in a process of conversion from a pyramidal society to a synodal koinonia. It begins presenting the society-ecclesiology, typical of the second millennium. Said notion of Church implies a self-perception as a perfect society of unequals: on the one hand, the pastors, on the other, the flock. The decision-taking process belonged exclusively to the pastors. In the 20^th century a paradigm shift is observed, a shift that is concretized in the Vatican II Council and in the subsequent process of reception. The Church perceives itself as a koinonia, namely a communion with the Trinity and among men. The article argues that this shift in self-perception brings as consequence that the Church should deepen a process of conversion of the ecclesial structures in a synodal key, abandoning the pyramidal mentality, still present in many members of the Church.

Keywords: Synodality, Koinonia, Icon of the Trinity, Sensus fidei

 

Elmar Nass, Roboterethik in Japan und Europa: ein Kulturenvergleich

Abstract - In international comparison, the Japanese are masters of robotics, the Europeans are masters of ethics. Both perspectives are essential for a robotics ethics and are discussed here interculturally. The question is what Europeans and Japanese can learn from each other in the field of robotics ethics. First, theses on robot ethics in Japan are discussed. From a European perspective, normative question horizons are contrasted before a constructive cultural-ethical dialogue to ensure a humane robotics is attempted.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, animism, human dignity, technology affinity, acceptability

 

Rafael Ramis-Barceló, Los orígenes de la noción de ‘ideología’ en el siglo XVIII

Abstract - This article wants to show that the notion of «ideology» was not coined by Destutt de Tracy, but it may be found in four philosophical works written by Jesuits from Central Europe during the second half of the 18th Century. In these works, «ideologia» was a part of logic, replacing «simplex apprehensio» as the first operation of the mind. The objective of these jesuits was to attempt a convergence with modern philosophy. In this article, the itinerary of the historical formation of the concept is studied, from the notion of «idealogia» to «ideologia», and the differences between the concept of «idéologie» by Destutt de Tracy and the «ideologia» in the scholastic manuals are highlighted.

Keywords: ideologia, idealogia, idéologie, jesuits, scholastic philosophy, modern philosophy, Ignatius Frantz, Destutt de Tracy

 

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE PANDEMIC (Part II)

Andrea Carroccio, La pandemia e la difficoltà di costituire un mondo comune: un’analisi fenomenologica

Abstract - The article offers a phenomenological interpretation of the unease about personal relationships and readaptation to the everyday life after the emergence of the pandemic in 2020. As a viewpoint on the phenomenon, we refer to the gradual constitution of the lifeworld as it emerges in the second volume of the Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and The Crisis of European Sciences by Husserl in order to show how some steps of this movement have been changed by the lockdown.

Keywords: Phenomenology, Pandemic, Intersubjectivity, Lifeworld

 

Yolanda Rodríguez Jiménez, fmvd, Verso una visione relazionale della persona

Abstract - The current health crisis and its consequences lead us to broaden the horizon of our interest and to move from «I» to «us» and from personal to collective interest. However, we cannot deny that this resurgence of «us» presents certain challenges from an anthropological and practical point of view. I believe it is necessary to reflect on the relational ontology of the person by valuing both the social and relational dimensions of the person and the anthropological significance of the individual subject. The article deepens on the relational ontology of the person and points to some of the changes and challenges we will face in the future including the experience of confinement and the lack of experiential knowledge, the praxis of our daily relationships at a distance and the communication and use of language and words.

Keywords: Relational Ontology, Person, Body, Word

 

João J. Vila-Chã, S.I., Uomo democratico e Popolo che decide: Ambiguità e Paradossi nei rapporti fra Democrazia e Populismo

Abstract - The article seeks to clarify the relationship between democracy and populism in order to elicit further reflections of a more systematic nature both on the condition of possibility of an authentic democracy, that is, the formation of the democratic man of which Alexis de Tocqueville speaks, and on populism as an inseparable phenomenon of democracy itself because of its intrinsic relationship with the category of people. The article notes some of today’s transformations of democracy in its particular confrontation with the emergence of populism in the West. As a starting point, we take Giovanni Sartori’s politological view according to which today’s political crises are inseparable from the fact that ours is a world where the moral man finds himself thrown into the midst of the ferocity of an immoral society, i.e., devoid of authentically moral values. The proposed solution to the crisis of democracy reflected in the emergence of the various populisms would then pass through a reaffirmation of the value, also in the hermeneutical sense, of the Constitution, both in terms of the values it incorporates and the capability of the political system to sustain and enforce them. Open, however, remains the question as to the ontological and religious way out of the paradox in which we find ourselves in the political context of the pandemic associated with covid-19.

Keywords: populism, democracy, politics, Sartori, Tocqueville

 

Rocco D’Ambrosio, Società e politica italiane alla prova della pandemia

Abstract - The essay analyzes the period of the pandemic trying to highlight the anthropological and ethical aspects, both on a personal, social and political level. In particular, the following aspects are addressed: the meaning of the pandemic; the ethical hold in the last two years; the political dimension relating to the pandemic crisis; some ethical considerations on political choices in economics, adopted by the governments involved.

Keywords: Pandemia, public ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy 

 

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